David Forman

2026-03-17 09:51:09

Oliver Cromwell more than made up for this with his slaughter in Ireland. The Easter Rising in 1916 saw one of the leaders of the rebellion, James Connolly, executed whilst strapped to a chair even though he was already badly wounded from a gun battle. It was the brutality of the British government in 1916 that lost them Ireland. See https://www.1916rising.com/cms/history/leaders-soldiers-and-poets/leaders-of-the-1916-rebellion/