Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

As soon as the Irish Papist landowners had been, to some extent, got rid of, that is to say in the Summer of 1653, the great work of settling the adventurers and soldiers on the lands which had been cleared was begun. Already, indeed sometimes many months before this, numbers of the soldiers had sold [...]

Above : Painting Of Hugh O’Neill When the news of the intended confiscations came to the ears of the Irish whose lands lay within the counties to be planted, it was to them ” as a sentence of death.” The fiat, however, had gone forth against them; no justice, much less mercy, was accorded them. [...]