As the decades passed, the influence of the Vikings waned in Ireland. The power struggles between the Irish kings continued, and as the bonds between the tribes grew weaker, their neighbors to the North grew stronger. The country of England came under the dominion of one king and one throne, and they built a mighty army and a navy that allowed them to extend their influence into the European continent. They turned their power against their neighbors to the north and south, and soon the English throne subjugated Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
There was great resistance to the English conquerors over the centuries, and out of desperation, Oliver Cromwell led a Parliamentary invasion of Ireland in 1649. His target was the Irish Catholics of Northern Ireland, who he suspected of conspiring wit
