discuss english treatment of the irish and its consequences?

Answer 1

Hello,

In a nutshell;

For quite a while to the English they were essentially n words with white skin.
It never helped that they kept their Catholicism after England broke yoke with the pope and were treated accordingly and discriminated against over 3 centuries.Scottish and other protestants over a few hundred years were given land in Ireland by the English.

Nevertheless many took the "Saxon Shilling" as the old song goes or were forceably transported and helped build the Brirish Empire around the world. Also because of the Potatoe famine in the mid 19th century with little English help or relief caused a mass exodus to America and other countries so much so that as of the 90's Irelands population was half of what it was prior to the mid 19th century.


A number of rebellions were tried and failed, Oliver Cromwell, perhaps one of the most hated names in Irish history sent a punitive expedition to whack the Irish for sending soldiers to help the English king in the English civil war and later to confiscate more Catholic land for the English.

Ultimately Ireland rebelled, had a big uprising in 1915, leaders like Michael Collins developed what we know as urban guerilla warfare and eventually Southern Ireland got her indepedence by 1921. In the deal (which was Collin's demise) Northern Ireland or Ulster stayed as an English province and you have seen the reprocussions from that over the last 35 years.

Regards,

Michael Kelly

PS - a short and choppy missive for my liking but books explaining the details are usually a few hundred pages in length.

Answer 2

The English wished to subjugate the Irish ( also the Highland Scots and the Welsh) because they believed that the countries belonged to England or that they should.And they were willing to do whatever was necessary to control them i.e.such as destroying their culture, starving them, selling them into salvery (the blacks weren't the only people sold as slaves here in the United States or the Indies) or denying them basic human rights.And the consequences of England's actions earned them (the English) the eternal enmity of the Irish ,the Scots and the Welsh.There is a saying that 'Love is unreasonable but hate has a reason for everything.' If you wish to know more read Padric Colum's book ' The Story of the Irish Race' and also The Evil Empire:101 ways that England ruined the world ' by Steven A.Grasse and Penny Rimbuad. And ' They were White and they were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America ' by Michael A. Hoffman and ' To Shed a Tear : A Story of Irish Slavery in the British West Indies ' by Lawrence R. Kelleher. I hope this helps you.

Answer 3

This sounds like a Homework Help question, and reads like an impolite demand.