Posted on 10/29/2021 10:09:56 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1651, three days after the Irish city Limerick surrendered to a withering five-month Parliamentarian siege, the victors hanged Bishop Terence Albert O’Brien on Gallows Green.
Limerick was the southern stronghold of the Catholic and anti-Parliamentarian Confederate Ireland.
It was this polity, which allied itself to English Royalists, that Cromwell assailed in his bloody conquest of Ireland.
Though Cromwell lives forever as an oath in Irish memory, the man himself left Ireland in 1650 to smash an awkward Royalist alliance with Scottish Presbyterians.
That left the Irish campaign in the hands of Cromwell’s capable fellow-general (and by this time, son-in-law) Henry Ireton, and it was Ireton who laid Limerick under a siege at an estimated cost of 5,000 civilians succumbed to starvation and plague.
The Catholic Bishop of Emly, Terence Albert O’Brien, had been trapped in the mixed English-Irish city and encouraged continued resistance to the siege. Ireton advanced him to the very front of the queue for punishment, and had him put to death directly after the city’s capture.....
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I’d like to see execution on this day, Cuomo, Fauci, and Soros.
Bishops should not be politicians. Neither should Popes. Eh?
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