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    MarchDub
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    pjproby wrote: »
    Interesting article from todays Irish Times about a digitisation project going on in Trinity into the 1641 rebellion. Looks like a good historical archive will be online soon

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/1106/1224258176704.html

    The other thread on the "causes" of the recent troubles and this thread have a lot in common. Beginning around the 1980s revisionist historians denied the previously accepted reason for 1641 and the rampant anger that seemed to be unleashed - that it was a direct result of the Plantation.

    Something like the UVF version, or spin on, more recent events - that the fact of the violence should become the emphasis and not the social circumstances that led to it all.

    Fasten your seat belts for this one.


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