The 1650s: Britain's Decade Without a Crown
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What Happened in Ireland in the Seventeenth Century?
The treatment of ireland in terms of, you're going to be outraged about the past and how people have behaved? I think it's really up there. And i guess its repecussions in ireland are even more profound. They were, unquestionably, but more profound. It wasn't particularly a cromwellian or even republican enterprise. Charles the first had sent an english army over to put down a catholic uprising in 16 forty one. The land distribution that just basically completely disfranchises the catholic irish from then on was obviosly accelerated.
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