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Anglo-Irish is also used to describe formal contacts, negotiations, and treaties between the United Kingdom and the Republic Of Ireland . Some examples of this usage are the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 , the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 , and the Anglo-Irish Summits (as meetings between the British and Irish Prime Minister s are usually called). THE ANGLO-IRISH SOCIAL CLASS Under the Penal Laws that were in force between the 17th and 19th Centuries , Roman Catholic s in Ireland were barred from entering professions such as law and medicine, and their rights to own property were severely restricted. The term "Anglo-Irish" was often applied to the anglicised Protestants who therefore made up the Irish professional and landed classes. A number of them became famous as poets or writers, including Dean Swift , Bishop Berkeley , Oliver Goldsmith , Bram Stoker , Oscar Wilde , W.B. Yeats , C.S. Lewis and Bernard Shaw . Some, such as Edmund Burke , played an important role in British politics, while others, such as William Rowan Hamilton , G.G. Stokes , and Ernest Walton , were distinguished scientists. The Anglo-Irish were also represented among the senior officers of the British Army by men such as Field Marshal Lord Roberts , first honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards regiment, who spent most of his career in India , and Field Marshal Lord Gough who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War before rising to prominence by commanding the British army fighting the First Opium War in China . The Anglo-Irish were often of Irish or mixed Irish-British ancestry and usually identified themselves as Irish despite adopting many English customs. The more successful among them often spent their careers in Great Britain or in some part of the British Empire. In this sense, "Anglo-Irish" identified a Social Class . Playwright Brendan Behan , a staunch Irish Republican , famously defined an Anglo-Irishman as "a Protestant with a horse:"
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