Oliver Cromwell: father of Irish republicanism?

Oliver Cromwell’s government sponsored two congregations of Protestant Dissenters in Dublin between 1649 and 1660. One of them met at Wood Street and the other at ‘Saint Nicholas-within-the-walls’, close to […]

‘Practising history without a licence’:Peter Berresford Ellis and popular history

Before A history of the Irish working class, Hell or Connaught! The Cromwellian colonisation of Ireland (1975) and The Boyne Water (1976), Peter Berresford Ellis had published books on the […]

Cromwellian courts martial records

Our understanding of the Cromwellian period from 1649 to 1660 has been sorely hampered by the fact that the records of the period were lost in the destruction of the […]

Confederate Catholics at war, 1641–1649

Padraig Lenihan (Cork University Press, e57.25) ISBN 1859182445 The study of Confederate Ireland has experienced a renaissance of late, after years of relative neglect. However, scholars have concentrated for the […]

Celtic Dimensions of the British Civil Wars

The University of Strathclyde hosted the second conference of theResearch Centre in Scottish History on 5 April 1995. The organiser,John Young, brought together a new generation of historians engaged inoriginal […]