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 ::::::::That is incorrect. Britain was pillaged by the Irish from the fourth century to the sixth, and they set up colonies all along its western coast. So severe did Irish pillaging become that the British authorities under Vortigern, no longer able to rely on Roman support, hired the Anglo-Saxons as mercenaries, but then found themselves unable to pay them. One of the particularly disgraceful things that the Irish did in this period was to raid the British coast in order to kidnap people as slaves. One of these was St Patrick.   

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