... Leinster fight against a rival king. Then King Henry II lands the following year, and so begins the 800 years plus British influence in Ireland. In the mid-16th Century, Queen Elizabeth, a protestant monarch and daughter of Henry VIII, came to the throne during a time of increasing tension between the Catholics and the Protestants. This was the beginning of centuries of unrivalled religious conflict which was to continue in to the 21st Century. Civil war had been raging in English since the early part of the 17th Century and colonization began in Ireland early in the 17th Century with the plantations at Ulster. This created some feelings of resentment amongst the natives which resulted in a rebellion and the deaths of some 12,000 settlers. Cromwell on a Broad, which at twenty shillings was the forerunner of the guinea. Portraits of British Kings and Queens. Accessed 30/01/04 This leads to the native ...

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