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treasures I find. That's me, Tony Johansen, artist who likes to share
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    Oliver Cromwell.When Cromwell invaded Ireland in the 16th century 12 years of war followed with the loss of up to 600,000 lives that produced lasting bitterness between Catholics and Protestants. Cromwell was not the first to bring misery to Ireland. The Vikings, hunderds of years before found the rich monasteries and small towns easy pickings for pillage and rape. Nor has non-human events made life easy. The Irish potato famines led to mass exodus of populations and both the USA and Australia contain more Irish people than Ireland itself. The Emerald Isle is a place of misery and dispair that has etched a particularly beautiful poetry into the soul of the Irish and is possibly one of the reasons so much genius in the arts has come from there. 

    Oliver Cromwell.

    When Cromwell invaded Ireland in the 16th century 12 years of war followed with the loss of up to 600,000 lives that produced lasting bitterness between Catholics and Protestants. Cromwell was not the first to bring misery to Ireland. The Vikings, hunderds of years before found the rich monasteries and small towns easy pickings for pillage and rape. Nor has non-human events made life easy. The Irish potato famines led to mass exodus of populations and both the USA and Australia contain more Irish people than Ireland itself. The Emerald Isle is a place of misery and dispair that has etched a particularly beautiful poetry into the soul of the Irish and is possibly one of the reasons so much genius in the arts has come from there. 

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