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It is generally unhealthy to dwell upon the misdeeds of the past, but it is worse again to consign them to the category of their never having taken place at all.
The original test act, just like this modern one, had a simple animating origin: Fear.
Penal crosses have been described as one of the few examples of Irish folk art.
These laws sowed the seed for further discontent and rebellion.
The story behind the republication of this book is in some ways as interesting as its content. As explained in the prologue, in 2007 Damien Richardson found a hard back copy of Fr. Dennis Murphy’s book, which was originally published in 1896, while cleaning out a house in Dublin. Damien was almost ten years into […]
These laws sowed the seed for further discontent and rebellion.
After the Treaty of Limerick and the Battle of the Boyne, the Irish and English parliaments brought in draconian measures to crush the Catholic population. Even though Catholics had retained ownership of a mere 22% of the land which was further reduced to 14%, the penal laws attempted to ensure that no Irish Catholic would […]
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