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| | The Settlement of Ireland, 1652-60 |
 | | In February 1652, with the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland virtually complete, Parliament instructed its commissioners in Ireland — Edmund Ludlow, Miles Corbet, John Jones, John Weaver — to begin planning the settlement of Irish land. |
 | | Charles Fleetwood, Lord-Deputy of Ireland from August 1654, was zealous in his efforts to enforce the transplantations of the native Irish, but the policy was impractical and foundered because the expected mass migration of Protestant settlers into Ireland did not take place. |
 | | However, the bardic tradition was carried on informally and a new genre of Gaelic poetry arose: the aisling, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman who laments the fate of the Irish people and predicts the revival of their fortunes. |
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