‘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 ...

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

An Garda Síochána (Irish police) William of Orange and Oliver Cromwell's legacies divide opinion in Ireland Oliver Cromwell led the rebellion against King Charles I which saw the English monarch ...

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was born in Huntingdon on 25th ... According to the Directory of Publique Worship of God (which replaced the Book ...

A traffic cone placed on top of a statue of Oliver Cromwell clouded Ben Obese ... Dublin in 1649 after a Royalist rebellion broke out in Ireland, and had a "merciless policy" towards Irish ...

In the first episode of their new Close Readings series on political poetry, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ by Andrew Marvell, described by ...

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 ...