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Spanish Morion c1580,found in Ireland as a result of efforts by the papacy or Spain to support Catholic rebellions.

One account of the plantation of Ulster.

Oliver Cromwell with Warts on his face by Samuel Cooper c 1657.

Books of Survey and Distribution, compiled between the 1650s and 1680s, a very detailed record of the seismic shift in the ownership of land in Ireland after the Cromwellian conquest.

Battle of Augrim as depicted by Irish Artist John Mulvanny 1881.

On the morning of July 14th, 1690, King William III presented these fine doeskin gloves to John Dillon, in whose home in Lismullin, Co Meath, he had stayed the previous night. He had just won the Battle of the Boyne

The stone was used for secret Catholic worship after the Penal Laws had been introduced.

The book of Depositions against Irish Rebels. Right up to the 20th century, they were deployed as proof of Catholic barbarism and malice, justifying everything from the campaigns of Oliver Cromwell to resistance to Home Rule.

Theobald Wolfetone of the United Irish Men.