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annie616pop · 26-30, F
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It's a long tragic history the day Oliver Cromwell exerted a cruel power following the defeat of the Irish Confederacy in 1652. It's not that it was a defeat it was the atrocities he allowed to occur as a way of punishing the Irish Catholic and the Penal Laws that displaced them from their homes. It began a 300 year long suppression of human rights, indignities, famines, and tribulation. My kin were mostly from Wexford with roots from the Vikings that colonized. Our men made up a large part of the Irish Confederate Army. To this day, in America, our clans have a huge potluck and dance on the weekend closest to September 3....the day the despicable tyrant passed on.
It's a long tragic history the day Oliver Cromwell exerted a cruel power following the defeat of the Irish Confederacy in 1652. It's not that it was a defeat it was the atrocities he allowed to occur as a way of punishing the Irish Catholic and the Penal Laws that displaced them from their homes. It began a 300 year long suppression of human rights, indignities, famines, and tribulation. My kin were mostly from Wexford with roots from the Vikings that colonized. Our men made up a large part of the Irish Confederate Army. To this day, in America, our clans have a huge potluck and dance on the weekend closest to September 3....the day the despicable tyrant passed on.