What Is Ireland's Biggest Problem

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In the tenth century A.D. Ireland was taken over by Vikings they killed there men and took their women they forced the Irish in land. Ireland’s biggest problem being that it was divided in they had one king but he was not truly king Ireland was divided into kingdoms and tribes that try take over each other. In the year of 941 the answer to their problem was born in the kingdom Munster the 12th son of a chief the boys name is Brian Boru who would one day save all of Ireland from their biggest enemy. Although the son of the chief of his tribe nobody thought he was ever good to amount to anything special so they sent him to a monastery to become a monk. At age ten he was visited by one of his father men he was told that his father was killed

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