Tag: Cromwell

• Mass Rocks of Ireland

  

  Keeping the Flame of Faith Alight The ‘Mass Rock’ is a structure that is peculiar to Ireland. It is classified as “a rock or earth-fast boulder used as an altar or a stone-built altar used when Mass was being celebrated during Penal times (the 1690s to 1750s AD), though there are some examples which appear […]

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  March 29, 2021

  Article Series, Factual, History, Ireland, Photographic History.,, Update

  British Rule, Confiscation, Cromwell, Ireland, Mass Rocks, Penal Laws, Secrecy

• The Legend of Captain Gallagher

  

  An Irish Highwayman There had always been a long tradition of guerrilla warfare in Ireland since the time of the first Norman invasions in 12th Century. By the time of the Irish Confederate Wars of the 1640s, these native Irish foot soldiers were the mainstay of the rebel forces in Ireland and known to their […]

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  March 22, 2021

  Essay, Factual, History, Ireland, Legend, Short Story, Update

  Adventure, Cromwell, Highwaymen, Ireland, Rapparees, The West of Ireland