The Hidden Saints of Seventh-Century England ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Hidden Saints of Seventh-Century England ~ The Imaginative Conservative

St. Withburga Over the centuries, the English have been something of a curse to the Irish. English rulers, such as Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Oliver Cromwell, have sought to impose their will on the people of Ireland, often through the tyrannical use of terror on a defenseless population. There is, however, one sense in which the Irish have conquered not only the English but the whole English-speaking world. This is through the towering figure…