In the grim history of the persecutions inflicted by victorious nations on their defeated enemies, the Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland after the long warfare of the 1640s must rank high. By the Settlement Act of 1653, the English government seized three-quarters of all Ireland, to be parcelled out in lots to its unpaid soldiery, and every Irishman was banished beyond the Shannon. This was a savage episode in Irish history. Commissioners were faced with an impossible task as they struggled to put a valuation on almost all the land and property in Ireland. The Irish suffered appalling hardships and humiliations and were forced to make the winter journey with their entire household and stock to an uncertain welcome in Connaught. And the Protestant settlers, even those lucky enough to retain their land, would all be dispossessed by the Restoration Settlement that followed nine years later. First published in 1865, J.P. Prendergast's classic work, now reissued, makes extensive use of state documents and contemporary pamphlets to provide a fascinating account of this terrible pillage, the long-term effects of which are still being felt in Ireland today.

The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland

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Prendergast, John P.

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Ireland From The Restoration To The Revolution, 1660-1690

The Williamson Road area, which was annexed by the city of Roanoke in 1949, was originally a part of Botetourt County and thereafter of the northern part of Roanoke County. A Place Apart traces the history, places, and families of the Williamson Road. The book begins with various sketches of Roanoke Valley pioneers and early land owners. The second part of the volume continues with sketches of families that arrived during the late 18th or early 19th century, including Barren, Bushong, Campbell, Cannaday, Fellers, Garst, Harshbarger, Huntingdon, Nelms, Nininger, Oliver, Petty, Read, Rudd, Stokes, Watts, and Williamson. Community leaders associated with the Roanoke Valley's recent history are treated elsewhere in the book.

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The legacy of Oliver Cromwell is still haunts the Irish imagination. His alleged directive to the Catholic Irish to get ""to Hell or Connaught"", and the policy that drove it, permanently altered the ownership of Irish soil.The Parliamentary forces' civil war against Charles I were enmeshed in a ruthless campaign against popery and the Catholic perpetrators of the assault on the Protestant colonists of 1641. The legacy of sectarianism has marred Irish politics to this day. Prendergast's research reveals his keen eye for evidence. His dismissal of the colonists' claims about the nature of the uprising of 1641 and his attitudes to race are contested, but he was a man of his times. More significantly his prejudices did not blind him and he lets his sources speak for themselves, while his analytical mind identifies the underlying economic motivation and forces behind the apparently civilising religious mission driving the settlement.

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The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland

The Cromwellian Settlement Of Ireland

Ireland From The Restoration To The Revolution, 1660-1690

Ireland From The Restoration To The Revolution, 1660-1690

The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland [1652-1660]

The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland

The Cromwellian Settlement Of Ireland

The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland

The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland

The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland