Rug-headed
Related to Rug-headed: dogfish
Rug´-head`ed
| a. | 1. | Having shaggy hair; shock-headed. Those rough rug-headed kerns. |
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William Shakespeare referred to the Irish as "rough, rug-headed kernes" - an image of barbarians with a fighting disposition.
Ireland, the perennial Other, was not a new world: it was a colonized quagmire on the fringe of the old settled for centuries, unsettled perennially by rug-headed kerns and ambitious Earls, rebellious by vocation and temper.
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