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Originally Posted by hiorta
By Ireland, you possibly mean Ulster?
This was English ethnic cleansing continuing from the organised influx of French Hugenots, which failed due to miltant Irish patriots removing them.
An earlier Scots Planting in Catholic Ireland failed for the same reasons.
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Huguenots did go to live in Ireland, along with Jews, Germans, other French, even Spanish. But this was not an organised colonisation by the English.
There are indeed Irish Huguenot families such as the Le Fanus, but I think you are getting matters confused here.
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