... of the time remarks, "The Irish massacre of 1641 seems to me one of the great fictions of history, though a great number of murders were committed. The consensus of modern English historians, however, about it is so great that it is hardly possible to shake the belief in the English mind." The rebellion itself was given a moral and political framework when, in 1642 a group of clerics and Irish commanders met and formed The Confederacy of ... became known as the "Wild Geese" and were to be seen fighting all over Europe in various nations' armies. The hopes of all the Old English in Irelan...

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