Funny you should mention that. I'm Irish, and my Dadwho's a playwright, had a play on Irish radio recently, in which a character claimed that Cromwell had done a lot for Ireland; particulalry he revolutionised the agricultural methods. Dad got turds in the post. An O'Fatwa, he called it...
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