How did Ireland suffer due to British dominance?
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In legend, the British were violent occupiers of Ireland whose unreasoning cruelty defines the struggle that made the Republic.
A typical tale is the Battle of Augrim 1691. In this, according to the legend, the usual evil English defeated the long-suffering Irish. The Protestant General was called Godert de Ginkell (his boss was Willem of Orange, stadtholder of the Netherlands). The catholic general was called the Maquis de St Ruth, whose king was Louis XIV. There seems to have been an approximately equal number of people born in Ireland on both sides.
In reality Ireland was a separate country with its own government until 1800, although it shared a King with England (and Hannover) and occasionally the British parliament tried to exert some authority over it. In 1800 the British and Irish Parliaments voted to merge their countries (largely to stop the Protestant Irish ascendancy from continuing their appalling rule in Ireland). This was the usual lousy timing at the birth of Nationalist fervour across Europe. O’Connell brilliantly segued Irish discrimination against Catholics (religious discrimination was universal before 1792) into British discrimination against the Irish.
The English never ‘colonised’ Ireland - that is never moved there, although many Scots were semi-forcibly moved to the north of Ireland as ‘plantations’ (this policy was started by Mary Tudor on the advice of her husband, Philip of Spain but persued with vigor by James VI of Scotland (James I of Ireland and England) and some Normans had arrived in Ireland much earlier.
There was lots of aggro over the years between Catholic Irish and Protestant Irish and Scots. The Brits would have got shot of Ireland long before they managed it after 1918 but they were prevented from doing so by the often violent resistance to the idea of the Protestant Unionists in the North.
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1. According to mythology, the British were harsh invaders of Ireland whose brutality defined the conflict that gave rise to the Republic.
2. The Battle of Augrim 1691 is a typical example. The tale claims that in this, the typically nasty English vanquished the patient Irish.
3. Godert de Ginkell was the name of the Protestant general (his boss was Willem of Orange, stadtholder of the Netherlands).
4.The Maquis de St. Ruth, whose ruler was Louis XIV, was the name of the catholic general. On both sides, there appear to have been roughly similar numbers of persons born in Ireland.