Ulster refugees (Ultachs) forced to flee to Connaught from about 1795 on
Does anyone have information on the native Irish from Ulster who were threatened and or attacked by the Peep O Day Boys and told to go to hell or to Connaught? From about 1795, thousands fled Ulster and travelled to various parts of Connaught. I read the authorities stood back and allowed the perpetrators to damage looms, burn furniture, dwellings and churches.
Many of the atrocities committed against the native Irish down the centuries, especially from the latter decades of the sixteenth century on, that William Leckys History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century devotes lengthy passages to, were omitted from our history books. We also weren't taught about things like land annuities, the trade war in the 1930s and the final vast sum the fledging Irish state was obliged to pay in 1938. B Alcorn.
