‘L et Ireland go, with God’s blessing and a shake of the hand’, wrote Jerome K. Jerome in May 1920. This was a crucial year ...

There have been many dictators in history, and a few have been considered somewhat benevolent, others total despots. If you ...

Sculptures of William of Orange and Oliver Cromwell, which were stolen from an Irish stately home eight years ago, have been found in County Clare. The life-size busts, carved out of limestone ...

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was born in Huntingdon on 25th April 1599. He was the second son of Robert Cromwell (d.1617) and his wife ...

Bristol University professor Ronald Hutton creates a panoramic narrative as much about Cromwell’s world as ‘God’s executioner’ himself. Picture: Getty ...

This 1886 painting depicts Oliver Cromwell (bareheaded ... became of them in a letter to the English Council of State for Irish and Scottish Affairs dated October 31, 1650. The captives hadn ...

Following the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil Wars, and later his trial and execution, Oliver Cromwell became ‘Lord Protector’ in 1653. Cromwell was a Puritan, a strict ...