... Protestant Irishman, ruled the British senate; the sternest of her tyrants, a Protestant Irishman, led the armies of Europe. Puritan hate, which had grown blinder and more bitter since the days of Cromwell , gave them weapons. Ireland herself lay bound in the iron links of a code which Montesquieu said could have been made only by devils, and should be registered only in hell. Her millions were bey...