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 ...
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 ...