May 29, 2022
How Northern Ireland developed from 1607 to 1800 as the planted province of Ulster and then as part of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 and continued as part of Great Britain in 1922 when six counties of Ulster became Northern Ireland under the Anglo Irish Agreement and still is to the present day.
England's political connection with Ireland began in 1155 when Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to have been Pope, issued a papal bull that gave King Henry II permission to invade Ireland, as a means of strengthening the Papacy's control over the Irish Roman Catholic Church. The whole scheme was based on what we would call ‘’Fake news’’ in today’s parlance and is referred to in history as the Popish Plot.
