<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 29 53 1)>The Statutes of Kilkenny enacted in 1365 by the Irish Parliament under Lionel of Antwerp Earl of Ulster were a set of laws aimed at separating the English settlers from the Irish forbidding intermarriage alliances and other forms of interaction.&nbsp;</span></p>