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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). In the United States people who identify with the Ulster-Scots are sometimes called Scots-Irish, or Scotch-Irish while people whose ancestry can be traced to the Anglo-Irish refer to themselves only as Irish. ANGLO-IRISH SOCIAL CLASS The "Anglo-Irish" landed elite replaced the Old English and Gaelic Irish Catholic aristocracies in the Course Of The 17th Century as the ruling class in Ireland. At this time, they were usually called the "New English" to distinguish them from the Catholic "Old English," who were descendants of medieval Hiberno-Norman settlers. Under the Penal Laws that were in force between the 17th and 19th Centuries , Roman Catholic s in Ireland were barred from public office, military service, membership in the Irish Parliament , and from entering professions such as law and medicine. The lands of the old Catholic elite were largely confiscated in the Plantations Of Ireland and their rights to inherit landed property were severely restricted. Those who converted to Protestantism were usually able to keep or regain their lost property. 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 Jonathan Swift , George Berkeley , Oliver Goldsmith , Laurence Sterne , Bram Stoker , Oscar Wilde , W.B. Yeats , Cecil Day 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 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington (1769–1852), 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 . Field Marshal Lord Montgomery 's family came from County Donegal , although he was born in London and his father was the Anglican Bishop of Tasmania . The Anglo-Irish social class 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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