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One of the biggest challenges for the English administration in Ireland during late medieval era was the process of Gaelicisation, in which Norman elites would over the generations become hard to distinguish culturally and in behavior from the native population.

How do you prevent this from occurring? Do the statues of Kilkenny need to be adopted earlier? Are more English settlers required to stop this process from occurring?

And if this does happen, and the Normans in Ireland reflect the aloofness of their brethren in England to the peasantry, how does this influence later events like the War of the Roses and the Tudor Reformation?
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