The First Agricultural Revolution is said to have began in the 1500s’ may have in some ways explain the treatment it gave to Ireland during the 16th and 17th century. In England of that period social justice was not a priority. In England before the growth of towns as we know them to day, life [...]

This new generation of people in England became very dissatisfied about the productivity of Ireland and the Reformation became a further excuse to invade. Between 1580 and 1690 Ireland was three times devastated: first by the Elizabethan conquest; then by the rising of 1641, followed by the Cromwellian conquest and settlement; and finally by the [...]