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Tudor conquest of Ireland
The
Tudor conquest
(or
reconquest
)
of Ireland
took place under the
Tudor dynasty
, which held the
Kingdom of England
during the 16th century. Following a failed
rebellion
against the crown by
Silken Thomas
, the
Earl of Kildare
, in the 1530s,
Henry VIII
was declared
King of Ireland
by statute of the
Parliament of Ireland
, with the aim of restoring such central authority as had been lost throughout the country during the previous two centuries.
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