The Ocean Plague: or, A Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel. ... Everything which had been done in Ireland since . He attacked the O'Neils of Clandeboy. There is yet another matter on which I must touch by way of introduction. In response to such reports of violence, eight Protestant They ultimately reached Kilmore in safety, and took refuge with Bishop Bedell. Those who perished [says Mr. Gardiner] were for the most part those who were driven naked through the cold November nights amongst a population which refused them a scanty covering, or a morsel of food in their hour of trial. He remained for three days. On the termination of the struggle Brian invited Essex to his castle. It is possible, indeed, that a people, in defending their own territory, may commit excesses; and for these excesses they must stand at the Bar of History. While it was going on Essex wrote cheerfully to the Queen: 'News be brought to me that they be occupied still in killing, and have slain that they have found in caves and cliffs of the sea to the number of 300 or 400 more. Oliver Cromwell used it as his excuse to rape and pillage Ireland, but the 1641 ‘massacre’ of Protestants by Catholics during the Irish rebellion likely never happened. [Phelim O'Neil] treated Lord Caulfield and his family with great care when he surprised the fort of Charlemont on the 23rd day of October, 1641; there Lord Caulfield was kept until the 14th of January, when he was sent, under an escort to Clongorth Castle. He was absolutely at their mercy. Me they stripped to my shirt in miserable weather; my wife was not so barbarously used; both of us, with a multitude of others, hurried to Moein Hall. To the Irish it seemed mercy enough when no actual blow was struck against the flying rout. Hugh Óg MacMahon and Conor Maguire were to seize Dublin Castle, while Phelim O'Neill and Rory O'Moore were to take Derry and other northern towns. For years before the Rebellion broke out, English and Scottish lords had been taking over lands in Ireland to grow rich. Bishop Bedell was, as I have said, the English Protestant Bishop of Kilmore. The blades of grass of other soils are quite as well entitled to be defended. The spirit in which the Commissioners — Mr. Jones, Dean of Kilmore, and several other Protestant clergymen — set to work may be gathered from the statement of the objects of the Commission: 'To keep up the memory of the outrages committed by the Irish to posterity.' The 1641 Depositions constitute the chief evidence for the sharply contested allegation that the 1641 rebellion began with a general massacre of protestant settlers and as a result they have been central to the most protracted and bitter of Irish historical controversies. 'From the very beginning,' says Mr. Lecky, 'the English Parliament did the utmost in its power to give the contest the character of a war of extermination.' ', Despite these atrocities, the 'settlement' was a failure. The plan, to be executed on 23 October 1641, (Roman Catholic Feast of St.Ignatius of Loyola) was to use surprise rather than military force to take their objectives and to then issue their demands, in expectation of support fro… The unconscious humour of this sentence is delightful. By 1641, Ireland faced several problems besides the guys living next door. Cromwell is a hated figure to the Irish memory. Provoked by the 'accumulated wrongs and anomosities' of generations, the people rose against the foreign oppressors who had robbed them of their lands and planned the destruction of their race. 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