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I feel like historically speaking as far as Ierland goes if they're not being abused we don't really hear about them... so really any event is bad.

Indeed, I have ancestors involved in this genocide and they don't seem to be the type that would have any loyalty to London. So who exactly is it coming after the irish and why?

To give an example of a specific estimate, here is one claim:

"Throughout the early 1650’s Cromwell’s troops practiced a policy of scorched earth in Ireland which lead to the death by starvation and other causes of at least 200,000 and possibly as many as 600,000 in a total population of 2 million."

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=118...