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 ::::::""It was originally the Commonwealth of England ... The Stuart pretensions I mentioned ..."" It was a deliberate twist to demonstrate how preference for terms endure. 
 ::::::""... upon the Restoration in 1660 Cromwell's body was dug up and his head stuck on a pole ..."" Big whup-te-do! His ""settlement"" of Ireland was maintained and even furthered (see). Never did we see a return to the toleration that was so abhorrent to parliament that they would murder their king for it. Cromwell was never dug up from an Irish perspective, he lived on for another three centuries in the English (and subsequent British) parliament where is statue still stands in all its pride today - representing the enduring terror and intolerance of the English, and subsequent British, parliament. 
 ::::::""... ever since parliament has been supreme ..."" Do you think you need to remind me? Have Irish people not suffered woe because of it? To the English your parliament may represent liberty. To the Irish it represents hatred, intolerance, violence and terror. 
 ::::::""A good modern analogy (and this doesn't break Godwin's Law because it is a near perfect analogy) is the modern English mistrust and hatred of the Germans because of Hitler ..."" This is a ridiculous analogy. Just look at raw figures alone! Below are the population figures for England and Wales at roughly either end of the war with Hitler ([http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf source): 
 ::::::* Population of England & Wales 1941: 41,7488,000 
 ::::::* Population of England & Wales 1941: 43,815,000 
 ::::::Contrast to the enormity of death endured by the population of Ireland during the Cromwellian war (Perceval-Maxwell: 1994) 
 ::::::* Population of Ireland 1641: 2,100,000 
 ::::::* Population of Ireland 1652: 850,000 
 ::::::And can I ask what happened after the war with Hitler? Did England suffer a ""settlement"" on Hitler's victory to ensure that it would be politically nullified? Was that ""settlement"" maintained after the war by the Allies? Did the Nazi's, with all their intolerance and violence, remain in power in England for three centuries after the war? Ridiculous! 
 ::::::Again, it's a ridiculous analogy and a demonstration of the height of English arrogance that you would dream that the petty suffering that England endured 1939-45 could be compared in any way to the ultimate examples of violence, suffering and intolerance that your people have inflicted on others, Cromwell, the ensuing ""settlement"", and the persistence of that ""settlement"" and interrelation under military force by parliament for centuries after.  "