Irish Conflict

The Irish revolt, or problem as it is viewed in England, began with the granting of Irish land to English and Scottish noble men. The former owners were displaced. The anger of the Roman Catholics was intense when they were forced out of their homes and pushed to adopt Protestantism. “The devotion of the Irish to their Catholic church is both a blessing and a curse” (Pomeray, 91). Throughout history, the Irish have enduced conflict and persecution as a result of their devotion. The conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland were a direct result of the English invasion, the Irish dispossession, and Protestant ascendancy in the north due to English power.
For an understanding of the religious conflict on that island, we now know as the nation of Ireland, one truly has to look back at the people and culture, which dominated the nation prior to English settlement and invasion. These people, whose culture at its peak was dominated by Catholicism, were know...