Yeah, this podcast talks about that, how that Europe was basically stateless from about the fall of Rome in the 5th century until about the 15th or 16th century. I haven't read up on the anarchy in Ireland, but I'm thinking they probably had more freedom than the rest of Europe with it's many lords and serfs.

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