The term "Kilkenny cat" is a clear influence on the Pogues song "Wild Cats of Kilkenny".
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After the Statutes of Kilkenny the city was divided into two boroughs called Irishtown and Englishtown, a situation that wasn’t uncommon in a country occupied for so long by the English.
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A different soldier-based story tells that in the mid 17th century Oliver Cromwell's soldiers tied the tails of all the cats in Kilkenny in pairs of two and hung them over a wire.
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