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The Protestant Ascension in Ireland

When william of orange was came into folk in power, and before him as well, with cromwell, that meant the protestant ascendancy. That's when things started going very, very bad for the poor people of ireland. The pineapples were still hard to come by, but a little bit more accessible if you were wealthy. They say that pineapple in the 17 hundred would have been the equivalent of about eight thousand pounds for one pineapple. So this weird industry started to emerge in places like london, where people were renting pineapples. And then what happened if you couldn't even afford to rent a pineapple? What happened is the pineapple starts to appear as a

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