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Racial and cultural conflict in medieval Ireland is most famously described in a document written to the Pope, John XXII, in 1317 known as the Remonstrance of the Irish Princes. Composed as a justification of the Bruce invasion, it describes the fallout that resulted from English attempts to “extirpate” the native population: “Whence . . . relentless hatred and incessant wars have arisen between us and them [the Irish and the English], from which have resulted mutual slaughter, continual plundering, endless rapine, detestable and too frequent deceits and perfidies.”