Excerpt from a letter from Rina Flanagan:
"It was in Drogheda that I saw the head of Archbishop Oliver Plunkett, Blessed Oliver Plunkett, drawn and quartered in England. His head was hidden in a grandfather clock and brought to Ireland. That is the town where Oliver Cromwell ordered that every Catholic man, woman and child be killed. (Hitler must have read Cromwell's memoirs and those of Queen Elizabeth.) !!
For a slightly more tempered view of the Seige of Drogheda, read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Drogheda#Cromwell.E2.80.99s_siege_1649
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