The Ethnic Cleansing Of The Antrim Plateau. 1600's
The map above shows the Antrim Plateau, (The white rectangle )
Key; Green arrows =Fleeing Catholics, Red Dots , =Burned Chapels,
1=Islandmagee, 2=Ballycarry. H=Hannahstown. 79= Tullyrusk
The appalling and shameful truth is that since before the invasion of Henry II down to our own day the English have written the history of Ireland for the rest of the world, and it is only what England wanted them to know of us that the people of other countries learned about us and our struggle against the invader... here are some of the penal laws...
• The Catholic Church forbidden to keep church registers.
• The Irish Catholic was forbidden the exercise of his religion.
• He was forbidden to receive education.
• He was forbidden to enter a profession.
• He was forbidden to hold public office.
• He was forbidden to engage in trade or commerce.
• He was forbidden to live in a corporate town or within five miles thereof.
• He was forbidden to own a horse of greater value than five pounds.
• He was forbidden to own land.
• He was forbidden to lease land.
• He was forbidden to accept a mortgage on land in security for a loan.
• He was forbidden to vote.
• He was forbidden to keep any arms for his protection.
• He was forbidden to hold a life annuity.
• He was forbidden to buy land from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to receive a gift of land from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to inherit land from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to inherit anything from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to rent any land that was worth more than 30 shillings a year.
• He was forbidden to reap from his land any profit exceeding a third of the rent.
• He could not be guardian to a child.
• He could not, when dying, leave his infant children under Catholic guardianship.
• He could not attend Catholic worship.
• He was compelled by law to attend Protestant worship.
• He could not himself educate his child.
• He could not send his child to a Catholic teacher.
• He could not employ a Catholic teacher to come to his child.
• He could not send his child abroad to receive education.
Over four hundred years ago the English ruling class robbed, murdered, tortured, imprisoned and banished the people of this country under the plea that there must be uniformity of worship in Ireland and in Britain and in all the colonies of Britain, wherever they might be. For fifteen hundred years or more previous to that time the Catholic Church, the Church of Christ, had maintained the unity of the world in spite of schisms, defections, bogus popes and powerful heretics. Some eighty years ago an English Protestant who had begun to feel uncomfortable in his mind and to doubt the authority and oneness and antiquity of the creed into which he had been born, made a careful, patient investigation and discovered that in England and America alone the so-called uniformity of three hundred years ago had broken up into more than two hundred sects and sections and sub-sections of sects ; he could find no single trace of unity or authority in Protestantism anywhere. On another page the reader will find how much at variance were English historians and propagandists regarding the numbers supposed to have been killed by Irish Papists in the mythical 'Popish Massacre' of 1641. In many things our enemies have glaringly shown lack of uniformity and unanimity, but in one task they have stood shoulder to shoulder as one man throughout the centuries and that task is the suppression and the distortion of Irish history.
The appalling and shameful truth is that since before the invasion of Henry II down to our own day the English have written the history of Ireland for the rest of the world, and it is only what England wanted them to know of us that the people of other countries learned about us and our struggle against the invader. If anyone who reads this statement feels like doubting or challenging the truth of it, let him make an exhaustive, comprehensive, patient, careful study of the history of Ireland since before the Danish invasion and establish to his satisfaction the truth or the falsehood of what we say. It will be no easy task, but if he is one who loves Ireland and reverences truth he will be so invigorated and gladdened by his discoveries as he goes from page to page and period to period that the task will become a pleasure and instead of being fatigued at the end of it he will feel like striding here, there and everywhere through the land calling out to all who will listen the truths he has discovered about the long maligned people of Ireland.
But if he wants to get the full truth and the whole truth he must not confine his research to English Record Offices and State Papers and to the history books written in English during the past few hundred years. When, for instance, our people were killed or exiled or imprisoned three hundred years ago, there was no one in Ireland who could or would write down the truth of what had just happened. Ireland was gagged but England was free to tell the world and to tell future generations of Irishmen the story of the war and of the ' settlement' that came after it. For at least fifty years the English historians and propagandists had the field to themselves and they did not throw away their opportunity, The tragedy is that Irishmen and Irishwomen with few exceptions in every generation
The Ethnic Cleansing Of The Antrim Plateau. 1600's
The map above shows the Antrim Plateau, (The white rectangle )
Key; Green arrows =Fleeing Catholics, Red Dots , =Burned Chapels,
1=Islandmagee, 2=Ballycarry. H=Hannahstown. 79= Tullyrusk
The appalling and shameful truth is that since before the invasion of Henry II down to our own day the English have written the history of Ireland for the rest of the world, and it is only what England wanted them to know of us that the people of other countries learned about us and our struggle against the invader... here are some of the penal laws...
• The Catholic Church forbidden to keep church registers.
• The Irish Catholic was forbidden the exercise of his religion.
• He was forbidden to receive education.
• He was forbidden to enter a profession.
• He was forbidden to hold public office.
• He was forbidden to engage in trade or commerce.
• He was forbidden to live in a corporate town or within five miles thereof.
• He was forbidden to own a horse of greater value than five pounds.
• He was forbidden to own land.
• He was forbidden to lease land.
• He was forbidden to accept a mortgage on land in security for a loan.
• He was forbidden to vote.
• He was forbidden to keep any arms for his protection.
• He was forbidden to hold a life annuity.
• He was forbidden to buy land from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to receive a gift of land from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to inherit land from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to inherit anything from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to rent any land that was worth more than 30 shillings a year.
• He was forbidden to reap from his land any profit exceeding a third of the rent.
• He could not be guardian to a child.
• He could not, when dying, leave his infant children under Catholic guardianship.
• He could not attend Catholic worship.
• He was compelled by law to attend Protestant worship.
• He could not himself educate his child.
• He could not send his child to a Catholic teacher.
• He could not employ a Catholic teacher to come to his child.
• He could not send his child abroad to receive education.
Over four hundred years ago the English ruling class robbed, murdered, tortured, imprisoned and banished the people of this country under the plea that there must be uniformity of worship in Ireland and in Britain and in all the colonies of Britain, wherever they might be. For fifteen hundred years or more previous to that time the Catholic Church, the Church of Christ, had maintained the unity of the world in spite of schisms, defections, bogus popes and powerful heretics. Some eighty years ago an English Protestant who had begun to feel uncomfortable in his mind and to doubt the authority and oneness and antiquity of the creed into which he had been born, made a careful, patient investigation and discovered that in England and America alone the so-called uniformity of three hundred years ago had broken up into more than two hundred sects and sections and sub-sections of sects ; he could find no single trace of unity or authority in Protestantism anywhere. On another page the reader will find how much at variance were English historians and propagandists regarding the numbers supposed to have been killed by Irish Papists in the mythical 'Popish Massacre' of 1641. In many things our enemies have glaringly shown lack of uniformity and unanimity, but in one task they have stood shoulder to shoulder as one man throughout the centuries and that task is the suppression and the distortion of Irish history.
The appalling and shameful truth is that since before the invasion of Henry II down to our own day the English have written the history of Ireland for the rest of the world, and it is only what England wanted them to know of us that the people of other countries learned about us and our struggle against the invader. If anyone who reads this statement feels like doubting or challenging the truth of it, let him make an exhaustive, comprehensive, patient, careful study of the history of Ireland since before the Danish invasion and establish to his satisfaction the truth or the falsehood of what we say. It will be no easy task, but if he is one who loves Ireland and reverences truth he will be so invigorated and gladdened by his discoveries as he goes from page to page and period to period that the task will become a pleasure and instead of being fatigued at the end of it he will feel like striding here, there and everywhere through the land calling out to all who will listen the truths he has discovered about the long maligned people of Ireland.
But if he wants to get the full truth and the whole truth he must not confine his research to English Record Offices and State Papers and to the history books written in English during the past few hundred years. When, for instance, our people were killed or exiled or imprisoned three hundred years ago, there was no one in Ireland who could or would write down the truth of what had just happened. Ireland was gagged but England was free to tell the world and to tell future generations of Irishmen the story of the war and of the ' settlement' that came after it. For at least fifty years the English historians and propagandists had the field to themselves and they did not throw away their opportunity, The tragedy is that Irishmen and Irishwomen with few exceptions in every generation