Yes Sorefingers, the people that Cromwell nastied up were called Royalists. There was a war going on.

Trevelyan was also in charge during the Highland Potato Famine in Scotland. He was awarded the KCB for his efforts in Ireland and Scotland. But it's wrong to blame all this on the English. The people who were responsible were known as 'The Aristocracy' or more accurately 'The Rich'. English peasants were marginally better off because after they stole our land they needed us to work in their factories and mines for fourteen hours a day.