A stabilized English monarchy enabled colonizing Ireland

Evidence

This mode of English sovereignty in Ireland was to be initially pierced during the reign of Henry VII (1485–1509), and finally reshaped altogether during that of Henry VIII (1509–47). … The stabilization of the English feudal monarchy had brought with it the possibility of transforming Ireland into an English colony. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 246

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Penal Laws made Irish Catholics an oppressed race in Ireland. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 127