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Cromwell was Framed: Ireland 1649 Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherChronos Books
- Publication dateAugust 29, 2014
- File size36161 KB
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- ASIN : B00LWFKT1M
- Publisher : Chronos Books (August 29, 2014)
- Publication date : August 29, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 36161 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 277 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,962,777 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #9,519 in History of United Kingdom
- #22,490 in Social & Cultural History
- #34,126 in Great Britain History (Books)
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About the author
I come from Drogheda, Ireland. I was born there. I live there. I never left the parish. Drogheda will forever be associated with Oliver Cromwell. It is the biggest stain on his career, as he is alleged to have massacred thousands of its unarmed inhabitants; babies, toddlers, teenagers, pensioners, grannies, grandads, etc.
I have discovered that this is complete nonsense and my books (available here) have proved this. Essentialy he managed to exclude unarmed civilians from the military conflict, although a handful may have died as the result of collatoral damage in both Drogheda and Wexford. However, I constantly get push-back from people everywhere who often disagree vehemently, including historians who should know better. Opinions are not facts. My work has not yet been seriously challenged by any historian anywhere. In times yet to come, my books will stand out as the primary work that played a central role in the rehabilitation of Oliver Cromwell's murderous reputation in Ireland. I have made it my life's ambition to try to right this wrong, this historical miscarriage of justice, to overturn the erroneous verdict of history.
While no doubt an impact has been made, to date my non-fiction books have essentially failed to penetrate the wall of tradition and myth that promote Cromwell as a genocidal maniac. A book on the Irish school curriculum today entitled 'History in Focus' by Dan Sheedy and published as recently as 2018 by CJ Fallon, states that at Drogheda Cromwell massacred 3,500 'inhabitants' and at Wexford 4,000 'people'. This is complete drivel and as bad as it gets. Most recently I have written Cromwell's fictional biography to get the same message out there to a different audience. The battle is an uphill one.
The fact that I failed second level history (F) and yet I discovered a fundamental flaw in the teaching of Irish history says something inconvenient about Ireland today. It says that generations of Irish historians have perhaps purposely failed to accept, and, with few exceptions continue to fail to accept, that Oliver Cromwell was fundamentally a decent guy, a product of his time. In my opinion they did/do this so anti-English sentiment can flourish. Well, enough already. Haven't we seen enough acrimony between our two countries?! Cromwell was framed. Get over it. Can we please blame the right people for the atrocities they committed, and not an honourable man who is innocent of the cvharges against him, as I have now proved.
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This engagingly-written book includes details of Cromwell's destruction of Catholic churches, of his decision to storm a town rather than accept its surrender contingent upon allowing its inhabitants free exercise of their Catholicism, of his ethnic cleansing of Ireland east of the Shannon ("to Hell or Connacht"), and of his shipping of innocents to slavery in "the Tobacco Islands," etc.
Despite the genocidal policies of Britain's State Church in Ireland at the time, this book attacks one religion; Catholicism. On page 46 the author states; "It was the Catholic clergy that was the source of Ireland's woes and it was they with whom he (Cromwell) had major issues, not the people of Ireland." As to Cromwell's pious platitudes of coming to save the people of Ireland the author approvingly writes (also page 46) "...there is absolutely no good reason to believe he was lying."
So Author Reilly, having cast substantial doubt whether Cromwell oversaw the killing of Drogheda's noncombatant inhabitants, he extrapolates that reasonable exculpation into a strange claim that Cromwell is also innocent of all of his other crimes detailed in this book.
This book contrasts sharply with perhaps the only other hagiographic portrayal of Cromwell; "Life of Cromwell," by J.T. Headley (1848). Though Headley's admiration of Cromwell exceeds Reilly's, and he matches Reilly's expressed hatred of Catholicism, Headley defends Cromwell, not by attempting, like Reilly, to exonerate him, but for being no more murderous to the Irish than Britain's monarchs; as follows;
(Headley's page 302): "The truth is, Ireland has ever been regarded as so much common plunder by England. From the twelfth century till now, she has, with scarcely one protracted interval, suffered under the yoke of her haughty mistress; and it is not just to select out one period (Cromwellian) in order to stab republicanism. We have read history of modern civilization pretty thoroughly, and yet, we know of no examples of violated faith, broken treaties, corruption, bribery, violence, and oppression, compared to those which the history of the English and Irish connexion presents."
"If the Commonwealth had lasted, Ireland would have been a Protestant kingdom and her subsequent misfortunes avoided."
So, three stars for "Cromwell was Framed;" all three for the author's willingness to dig and to expose academic slackness.