Rebellion of 1641 Quotes
About 2000 Irish were slaughtered while Cromwell only lost 64. In the Irish Rebellion of 1641, many English Protestants—men, women and even children were massacred by Catholic rebels who were out of control of their leadership. See {639336} for an example. Cromwell, when he landed in Ireland with his troops, made no bones about the fact that he was there to avenge the massacres of 1641 {639283} . This was his first “payback”. 150 years later the Irish Protestants memorialize the massacres of the Rebellion of 1641. The Catholics, memorialize, the massacre at Drogheda. Each group uses these and other similar events to justify their positions of antagonism against the other. See {639282} for a moral analysis of Cromwell’s action here.
The Irish Rebellion of 1641 The Rebels wanted to take control of the government and expel the English. However, the Irish rebels got out of control of their leadership and embarked on a number of bloody massacres of what they regarded as English usurpers and destroyers of their Catholic religion. It was the policy of the rebel leadership not to even disturb Scotts. They used the technique to tell the difference between English whose homes should be seized and Scotts who should be undisturbed that the ancient Jews used on the Exodus from Egypt: Marking the lintels of their doorway. The rebels who were so full f hate and demanding of vengeance did not always discriminate and many Scotts were massacred along with the English.
This is an excellent example of a theme that has been used since biblical times to justify massacres by military men. Namely that if the first town that you conquer is treated terribly enough, the word will get around and the next town the people will pressure their military to surrender to avoid the same fate. Therefore, they argue, as Ludlow does, that the massacre will reduce future violence. That perverse ethical logic has lasted for a long time. However, that was not the only motive here—vengeance was a major factor. This is another good example of the fact that many of the worst moral atrocities of men were perpetrated and led by men who thought that there were being moral and consonant with God’s will. See {639301} for Oliver Cromwell’s description of the massacre.
This is a description of a massacre of Protestants (mostly English) by Catholic Rebels led by Phelim O’Neill. The Catholics whose religion had been compromised when English King Henry VIII severed all ties to the Pope and the Vatican and bound the Irish to that decision of his. The Irish Catholic peasants so resented the English that their hate caused massacres like this in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Their anger was so great that Phelim O’Neill and his officers lost control of their troops who were bent on revenge.
There was an hatred of the English—especially for displacing the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland as well as England. See {639436} and {639434}.
This was a rebellion of the Irish natives of Ulster against the English Protestants land owners and the English settlers. In addition to the desire for liberty as this proclamation formally states, the rebels were mostly Roman Catholics whose religion had been almost destroyed the thought by the English component of the Protestant Reformation. 12 years after this proclamation, he was executed.
