‘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 ...

A noisy and impish bird, the magpie retains a grudging respect from Irish people even, in the wake of words from one of Cromwell’s colonels, noted in George Griffith’s, Chronicles of the ...

There have been many dictators in history, and a few have been considered somewhat benevolent, others total despots. If you ask the English you will get mixed positive or negative response regarding ...

It is believed that King James II, followed by Charles I and then Oliver Cromwell, sold over 500,000 Irish Catholics into slavery throughout the 1600s. Irish men, women and children were forced to ...

“Thrilled,” exclaimed Cromwell. “It’s so competitive, I haven’t won a Grade One in Ireland in over four years. That’s just the nature of how competitive it is, but he’s a proper one.

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 ...

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 ...