Grant Lee wrote:
>
> Maybe, but what would we call
> Cromwell's puritans if they were still around? Given that what _they_ did in
> Ireland and elsewhere makes present day protestant bigots look like
> pussycats.
I think that to understand Cromwell's policy in Ireland you need to see him not as a Puritan but as simply another Head of State. Ireland has not exactly flourished under pre- or post-Cromwellian regimes.
Carrol