“The events of 1641 transformed Irish history and, as a result, can be justly said to have transformed British and world history as well.”

The BBC notes the online publication of controversial historical accounts of the 1641 rebellion in Ireland. It’s the result of a three-year project, led by researchers at the Universities of University of Cambridge and The University of Aberdeen and Trinity College Dublin, in which 19,000 pages of the original depositions were transcribed. From the 1641 depositions website Traditionally the rebellion was thought to be sufficiently explained as an inevitable response to the plantation in Ulster.  Nowadays most scholars see that as an oversimplification and …

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