Do the executives at the network not realize how much the Irish Catholics are going to object to that? Cromwell is associated with the brutal Protestant conquest of Ireland, the infliction of penal laws oppressing Catholics, the Cromwellian Plantations expropriating lands from Catholics and giving them to Protestant soldiers and other English, the enslavement of large numbers of Irish who were sent to the Caribbean, and the forced movement of large numbers of Catholics from their homes to the west of Ireland. For those who are color blind, March 17th is the day in which Catholics celebrate the patron saint of Ireland (by the wearing of the green).
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The two hour program focused on the Irish disaster associated with Cromwell, and was quite good.
The program pointed out that thousands were killed by Puritan troops in battle, some 40,000 Irish were forced into exile, and something like 50,000 were shipped into forced labor in the Caribbean as a result of the Cromwellian invasion and conquest of monarchist and Catholic Ireland.
Why did something like a half million people die? Plague was introduced into Ireland at about the time of Cromwell's invasion. I don't think the program mentioned it, but the Puritans systematically destroyed food supplies to prevent them being used by insurgents, leading to famine. Famine in turn led to the diseases that massive hunger always brings in its wake.
All of this to a total original population of the island of about two million! And of course, the land holdings of Catholics were reduced from some 60% of the Island to less than 15%, with many Catholics forced to emigrate to lands west of the River Shannon.
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