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They forgot the eight hundred years during which Ireland had been under the heel of England, and the terrible history so well told by that most English of Englishmen, and Protestant of Protestants, Lord Macaulay.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “They forgot the eight hundred years during which Ireland had been under the heel of England, and the terrible history so…”
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Hoar reminds readers of the long history of oppression faced by the Irish under English rule, as articulated by Lord Macaulay.
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