The early seventeenth century was a period when the Irish deepen dissatisfaction in various spheres.
Being oppressed by the English government, the Irish lost the liberty of religion, political power, and land-ownership.
The Irish raised a rebellion in October 1641, turning the plight of England politics an opportunity.
Their atrocious and bloody violence in the rebellion has considered to cause numerous casualities of protestant inhabitants.
There had been a great discussion about the Irish rebellion in 1641 and the 1641 depositions, which is the testimonies of the protestant inhabitants who was under the attack of the rebels and escaped from them, but both Protestants and Catholics condemned and justified each of them by the source.
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These Symbolizing explains how the rebels dilute and remove a sense of sin against their violence.
The third factor to be considered is that there were different notions of attitudes to the protestant, feelings of loyalty, and a person who should govern Ireland in the rebels.
In order to accomplish their aim and strengthen the cohesiveness of the group, the leaders of the rebels were driven into the need to organize them under their control.
For example, Sir Phelim O'Neill, who was a leader of the rebellion, present a forge commission from the king to control his people and enhance his power, but his subordinates exploited it for their violence.
In general, the elites of the rebels attempted to control their members in several ways like introducing policies with a clear ethnic or religious antagonism, and the popular rebels utilized it.
As a consequence, it can be presumed that these policies ended up promoting the violence of the rebels.
Taking these matters into account, the discussion turns to analyze attributes which the rebels distinguished friends from
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In this connection, all protestant inhabitants, especially the Scots, was not considered as an antagonist from the beginning.
Some of the rebels attempted to develop a collaborative relationship with the Scots, taking them off a target of attack and persuading them to join the rebellion.
However, it was a minority that the rebels who tried to keep the victims distance and to help them beyond differences of a sect or/and an ethnicity.
Violence is considered to reflect an identity of a group or a community .
In the rebellion, individuals were lost in a group, and both an enemy and the friends were classified in a specific category and become a type.
Some differences of the corresponding to the inhabitants indicates that there were not always the common boundary line or the common value within the rebels.
On the whole, in the 1641 rebellion, the violence and awareness of the rebels were inextricably intertwined with a mix of factors consisting a religion and an