NEW HISTORY OF CROMWELL’S IRISH CAMPAIGN

Revisionist account of Cromwell’s controversial Irish campaign, especially the sieges of Drogheda and Wexford. Based on a decade’s analysis of primary documents, the author clears the Lord Protector of most of the ‘dubious’ charges against him and shows that they are based on religious and political propaganda which set out to systematically defame Cromwell.

Oliver Cromwell’s Irish campaign of 1649/50 is the most controversial in the Lord Protector’s not uncontentious career. Recently, two Irish historians have produced books which give diametrically opposed verdicts on his conduct : one acquitting him of ordering atrocities; the other confirming the traditional hostile Irish view of the ‘massacres’ which accompanied the storming of Drogheda and Wexford. In this work, Philip McKeiver sets out, by analysing the relevant historiography, to shatter several myths. Much of what we believe about these events, McKeiver argues, is based on propaganda which has muddied the historical waters. The result of a decade spent researching the evidence, McKeiver concludes that Cromwell’s reputation, record and character has been systematically vilified and blackened; and that most of the allegations against him are dubious and unsupported by primary documents. Sadly, it suited both England and Ireland to exaggerate Cromwell’s Irish actions and by so doing prostitute history for political and religious purposes.

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Product Code:	10979
Author:	Philip McKeiver
Format:	224pp, b/w illustrations, sb. Published Price £14.99
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