Cromwell in Ireland - a loyalist perspective  | Loyalist mural celebrating the arrival of Cromwell in Ireland
Shankill Parade, Shankill, Belfast, 2002 pdf version | 'Oliver Cromwell Born 1599, Died 1658'
Portrait of Oliver Cromwell surrounded by ‘Lieutenant General Lord Protector of the Protestant Faith’.
Mural shows 5 figures and two horses and two text panels. | Left hand text panel:
‘Catholicism is more than a religion. It is a Political Power therefore I’m led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is Crushed - Oliver Cromwell.’ | Right hand text panel:
‘Our Clergy persecuted and our Protestant churches desecrated. Also our Protestant people slaughtered in their thousands - Oliver Cromwell.’ |
| | 'To Hell, or Connaught' At the sight of the poor and barren province, even one of Cromwell's own generals observed that there was 'neither water enough to drown a man, nor a tree to hang him, nor soil enough to bury him.' |
| | |  | | | | Cromwellian land settlement Dark blue: main areas taken over by Cromwellian settlers Red: land reserved for Irish landowners Dotted blue line: mile line reserved for Cromwellian soldiers | |
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