[Excerpts from "Historical Sketch of the Persecutions Suffered by the Catholics of Ireland
Under the Rule of Cromwell and the Puritans", by Patrick Moran, 1900]
[excerpted 8 Dec 2006, Mark Murphy]

p. 87-89
Sufferings of the Catholics in Drogheda.
Proclamation by the Council in Dublin, 1642
"We do furthermore make known and declare unto all men, as well has his Majesty's loving
subjects as all other, that whosoever shall, betwixt this and the five-and-twentieth day of
March next, kill and bring, or cause to be killed and brought in to us, the lords justices of
this kingdom, as aforesaid, the head or heads of the said...., Donogh Oge O'Murchie, ..., 
or any of them, he shall have, by way of Reward, for any of the said last-mentioned
persons so by him killed, four hundred pounds and pardon for all his other offences...
God save the King."

p. 114-115
Sufferings of the Catholics in Wexford.
He (Father Daniel O'Brien) had for companions in martyrdom the Rev. Luke Bergin, of the
Cistercian Order, and Rev. James Murchu (Murphy), a secular priest. (on the 14th of April,
the vigil of Easter, in 1655). (hanged within city walls of Wexford)  The bodies of the three
holy martyrs were interred within the ruinous enclosure of St. Francis' monastery, outside
the walls of the city, and to the great terror and confusion of the heretics a brilliant 
heavenly light was repeatedly seen encircling the spot where they were interred.

p. 219
[from the MS Annals of Galway, preserved in the library of TCD, written in the reign of
Charles II]
"Upon an information of Colonel Stubbers, Governor of Galway, of the multitude of vagabonds
and idlers in the country, he [Charles Coote, commander of Connaught and Ulster] obtained
an order to ship them for Barbadoes, and this order was so carried out that many housekeepers,
going to see their cattle and children, were pressed on board, and all others that were registered
in the contribution book, so that there were two thousand persons sent off, and were sold as
slaves."

p. 314.
Transplanting to Connaught
... all landlords were obliged to make such Irish servants or tenants as remained with them 
"to speak English within a limited time, and their children were to be taught no Irish.  They were
to observe the manners of the English in their habit and deportment...; they were to abandon
their Irish names of Teige and Dermot, and for the future were to name their children with
English names, especially omitting the O' and Mac." [order in 1653]