Book Review: Was Cromwell Framed?
Cromwell was Framed, Ireland 1649 By Tom Reilly Published by Chronos Books, London, 2014 Reviewer: John Dorney Oliver Cromwell’s name is …
Opinion: ‘Cromwell was Framed’
Tom Reilly argues that Oliver Cromwell did not, as folk memory has it, slaughter the inhabitants of Drogheda in 1649. (See also …
Book Review: Conquest and Land in Ireland
Conquest and Land in Ireland – The Transplantation to Connacht 1649-1680. By John Cunningham Royal Historical Society, Boydell Press, 2011. Reviewer: John …
War and Famine in Ireland, 1580-1700
This article on famine in Irish History looks at how war provoked famine and massive population loss and aided conquest in early …
Today in Irish History, Cromwell Storms Drogheda, 11 September 1649
Cromwell’s sack of Drogheda and the massacre of the Royalist garrison by the New Model Army in 1649. By John Dorney On …
The 1641 Depositions go online
John Dorney reports from the launch of the 1641 Depositions online at Trinity College Some time in the winter of 1641, Anne …
Book Review: God’s Executioner
Patrick Fresne reviews God’s Executioner, by Michael O Siochru – an account of the devastating English Parliamentarian Conquest of Ireland in 1649-1653. …