Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above : Painting Of Oliver Cromwell During the six years of Commonwealth rule that followed the Cromwellian Settlement, Ireland had but httle history. The religious rites of the Catholic Church were forbidden, and all priests were ordered to leave the countrv. Catholics were excluded from offices of trust, and could not administer justice keep school [...]

Above : Picture Of Hugh O’Neill The news of the death of Elizabeth was welcomed with satisfaction by the Catholics of the Irish towns, and by those of the rural districts in and round the Pale. The clansmen elsewhere had not yet come to consider themselves as subjects of the Crown. Although, during the O’Neill [...]