[jmaroneps37]

Ireland, the land of my father’s family and our connection as part of the same family as Michael Collins, is an embarrassing dung heap.
They fought the British for 800 years to be able to practice their Catholic faith - won it - then threw it away in 100 years to suck up to the Godless worms in Europe.
Go ahead Ireland, keep it up and look forward to another 800 years but remember you did it to yourselves.

[Olog-hai]

Elizabeth I wasn’t around until the 16^th century and the Penal Laws came around in the 17^th, so that would put that estimation about 400 years off at most. Also, Henry II was the one that made Ireland fully Catholic in the 12^th century by means of the Norman invasion; he got the title “King of Ireland” with the blessing of two popes, after King Dermot Mac Murrough of Leinster province swore fealty to him in exchange for help to reverse his being deposed by the Irish high king Rory O’Connor.

Also, the Irish Republican Brotherhood was certainly not fully Catholic; many communists were among their ranks, e.g. James Connolly, who would not be fighting for the freedom to practice the Catholic faith but to impose godless atheism on Ireland in 1916.