Civil war Quote by Ronald Hutton

“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for…

— David E. Stannard

“Can one understand the presence of English literature without the absences of Irish literature? Are the presences in the former, at some level, bites…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Cromwell's punitive expedition marked a watershed in Irish history. An estimated 40 percent of the Irish population died either in the war or in…

— Thomas Sowell

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore,…

— Bertrand Russell

“The most spectacular-and embittering-of the British suppressions of the Irish was Oliver Cromwell's punitive expedition of 1649,”

— Thomas Sowell

A lot of people of my Ulster Protestant background would have been very suspicious of the notion of a film about Bloody Sunday. Our…

— James Nesbitt

“there is at least as much, and probably much more, variation on these matters among the Protestants of various types included in these merged…

— Rodney Stark

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris

“Their bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and then in the bitter settlements of England’s…

— James Webb

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

— John Amery

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

— Lara Flynn Boyle