The title is from a 1960s' book, which argued that the Irish were backwards and historically paralyzed by their long servitude to England. And still today we wonder how the British Empire was able to repress half of the known world. The descriptions of the starving to this day are horrifying, as entire families would beg others for food and drink, just enough to get through the day and night.
It clung to its heroes, who defeated the English at sea. During what was called the Irish Uprising of 1641, it threw heart and soul to Owen Roe O'Neill. "The Liberator" they called him., until he was killed in 1846. The Irish poets always put it best.
"We're sheep without a shepherd
When the snow shuts out the sky
Oh! Why did you leave us,
Owen? Why did you die?"
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