Cromwellian land confiscation transferred most Irish land to Protestant settlers

Evidence

Cromwell’s policies toward the adherents of Catholicism were harsh. For a time Catholic clergy were killed whenever they could be found. Of more lasting import, Catholic landowners, of either Anglo-Norman or Irish descent, were very largely stripped of their land; this expropriated land was then used as payment for Cromwell’s military lieutenants in the Irish campaign. By 1688 nearly 80 per cent of Irish land was in the hands of Englishmen and Scottish Protestants. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1588

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s ongoing arc on the Black radical tradition’s origins in expropriation and racialized dispossession. — connects to: Majority of early Irish emigrants to America were Protestant Ulster Scots. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 143
• ADDENDUM: Connects to the pattern of dispossession and expropriation that underlies the Irish-English dynamic Robinson analyzes.