FACT CHECK · COLONIAL HISTORY
Claim: Britain colonised Ireland before the Americas
TRUETHE ANSWER
True. The Munster plantation of the 1580s came before Jamestown (1607), and its colonists helped fund the Virginia Company. Penal Laws later barred Catholics from leases over 31 years until 1778.
SOURCE
Wikipedia: Plantations of Ireland; Penal laws (Ireland)
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