Author: Micheál Ó Siochrú
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571241217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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In a century of unrelenting, bloody warfare and religious persecution in Europe, Cromwell was, in many ways, a product of his times. As commander-in-chief of the army in Ireland, however, the responsibilities for the excesses of the military must be laid firmly at his door, while the harsh nature of the post-war settlement also bears his imprint.
Author: Tom Reilly
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1782795154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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The publication of "Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy" fifteen years ago sparked off a storm of controversy with many historians publically deriding the divisive and groundbreaking study. Dissatisfied with the counter-explanations of these seventeenth-century experts concerning Cromwell’s complicity in war crimes in Ireland, amateur historian Tom Reilly now throws down the gauntlet to his critics and issues a challenge to professional historians everywhere. In this entirely fresh work Reilly tackles his academic detractors head-on with original and radical insights. Breaking the mould of the genre, for the first time ever, the author publishes the actual contemporary documents (usually the privileged preserve of historians) so the authentic primary source documents can be interpreted at first hand by the general reader, without prejudice. Among the author’s fresh discoveries is the revelation of the identity of two (unscrupulous) contemporary individuals who, after exhaustive research, seem to be personally responsible for creating the myth that Cromwell deliberately killed unarmed men, women and children at both Drogheda and Wexford, and that a 1649 London newspaper reported that Cromwell’s penis had been shot off at Drogheda. Whatever your view on Cromwell, this book is persuasive. Conventional wisdom is challenged. Lingering myths are finally dispelled.
Author: James Wheeler
Publisher: Ips Publisher Testing 2
ISBN: 9780717128594
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: Martyn Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN: 1789622379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The book explores Cromwell's role in the Irish military campaign of 1649-50 and the subsequent land settlement. The essays provide fresh perspectives on a controversial topic, reassessing the prevailing siege warfare strategy used by Cromwell and offering new insights into other major players such as Henry Ireton and the Marquis of Ormond.
Author: Michael McNally
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781846033681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Osprey's study of Oliver Cromwell's campaigns during the end of the English Civil War (1642-1651). Following the execution of King Charles I in January 1649, the English Parliament saw their opportunity to launch an assault on the Royalist enclave in Ireland. Oliver Cromwell was appointed as Deputy of Ireland to lead a campaign to restore direct control and quell the Confederate opposition. The first battle in Cromwell's bloody offensive was at Drogheda, where an assault on the city walls resulted in the slaughter of almost 4000 defenders and inhabitants. The Parliamentary troops then proceeded to Wexford where battle once again lead to a massacre. After Cromwell returned to England, his son-in-law, Henry Ireton, continued the operation which ended with the surrender of Galway in 1652 and led to the Act for the Settlement of Ireland, in which Irish Royalists and Confederates were evicted and their lands 'settled' by those who had advanced funds to Parliament.
Author: Isaac Kimber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Author: Denis Main Ross Esson
Publisher: Combined Academic Publishers, Limited
ISBN: 9781907177002
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author D M R Esson describes the roles the much-hated figures of Oliver Cromwell and his Ironsides played in suppressing the Irish uprising, and the workings of the English Parliament that led to the creation of an independent Irish leadership.
Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Contains a biography of Oliver Cromwell.
Author: Tom Reilly
Publisher: Brandon Books
ISBN: 9780863223907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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This controversial study of Cromwell's notorious Irish campaign is published on the 350th anniversary of Cromwell's death. The author's unique opinions are shaped by his home town of Drogheda, the site of one of Cromwell's most notorious alleged massacres. Tom Reilly says: As author of this book, I feel that many historians in Ireland are not ready yet for 'an honourable' Cromwell - nor indeed are the people of Ireland. I thought that I would change the history books and public opinion about this much maligned historical figure by publishing the truth about Cromwell's Irish campaign. The reaction - among the under forties on the whole - was good, but among historians and the over forties it was bad. They can't seem to accept that an amateur could discover such a fundamental flaw in Irish history ie that neither Cromwell or his men ever engaged in the killing of any unarmed civilians throughout his entire nine month campaign. The facts are there for all to see. But God bless Ireland the past is still the present here and we MUST have our English hate figures - despite the truth. How sad is that?
Author: John P. Prendergast
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1909906204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The legacy of Oliver Cromwell is still haunts the Irish imagination. His alleged directive to the Catholic Irish to get ""to Hell or Connaught,"" and the policy that drove it, permanently altered the ownership of Irish soil.The Parliamentary forces' civil war against Charles I were enmeshed in a ruthless campaign against popery and the Catholic perpetrators of the assault on the Protestant colonists of 1641. The legacy of sectarianism has marred Irish politics to this day. Prendergast's research reveals his keen eye for evidence. His dismissal of the colonists' claims about the nature of the uprising of 1641 and his attitudes to race are contested, but he was a man of his times. More significantly his prejudices did not blind him and he lets his sources speak for themselves, while his analytical mind identifies the underlying economic motivation and forces behind the apparently civilising religious mission driving the settlement.
