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Are you talking about Normans such as Duke William of Normandy, or are you talking about after the Anglo-Saxon defeat. What I know is that Duke William the Conquerer went up through southern Britain while the elected King was fighting off the Danish or Norse in the North (I'm not sure about that one), and when the Anglo-Saxon army was defeated at the battle of Hastings, William took the the throne. Now he had to deal with Scotland to the North and Ireland and Wales to the east. The Normans had territory in Ireland, and they fought with the Irish, eventually winning and taking Ireland, until the early 1900's when the inventor of the Car Bomb and Urban Warfare Negotiated with the British and got Southern Ireland back, but was killed shortly afterwards because he failed to Get Northern Ireland.

After the Normans invaded England in 1066 they moved their attentions to Ireland. In 1171 they invaded and lots of Norman Lords and native Irish lords fought each other for the petty Kindoms and territory. After the Pope had given the English king permission to invade he did forcing out the Irish in a full scale invasion and nearly the whle of Ireland was in Norman hands for around 150 years. Throughout this time the Irish used guerilla warfare against the Norman troops. It was not until 1315 that the Sottish King Edward Bruce went to Ireland and rallied the local lords against the English. They won lots of the land that they had lost previously. However in 1348 the plague arrived in Ireland and this put all the warfare on hold. The english and Normans who lived in the cities and towns suffered badly but the Irish lived in the countryside and so were realaively unaffected. In 1367 the Norman families who had lived in Ireland for hundreds of years now became Gealicised and sided with the Irish on many political issues and became morew irish than the irish themselves a norman lord said. In the 15th century the English became preoccupied with their own war of the roses and cared little for Ireland delegating power to the locallords who in the years that followed set up a completely irish system of government. The normans aftrer this period never had anything much to do with the irish however the english reconquered Ireland in the Tudor period.