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TIL Spain protected and gave thousands of Irish people fleeing British persecution Spanish citizenship. King Philip V issued a decree 1701 stating “ the Irish were to be treated as native Spaniards” The Spanish also believed the Irish were descendants of an ancient Spanish King

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