Not benefit of Roman Ruling;
Young Europa’s Infant Schooling.
In century five St. Patrick great
Converts them to the Christian state;
And from this Western Isle afar,
English and Scotch converted are.
Danes and Ireland
Two hundred years from nine-nought-nought
Danes raiding Erin trouble brought;
And left them in chaotic state
No longer masters of their fate.
In those days ’twas ‘Woe to the weak,’
Saxons and Danes had made us squeak,
Then came the Normans in great force
And civilised us in due course.
They tried the same with Ireland green;
But only sowed a feud between
The land they’d conquered and Erin,
Leading to endless quarrelling.
Cromwell
England accepts the Reformation,
Catholic still the Irish nation