When you think of mosquitoes, Ireland definitely isn't the first place that comes to mind. But believe it or not, we've ...

They take a look at The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and ask, “Was Cromwell really that bad?” Oliver Cromwell’s campaign in Ireland is still a controversial subject amongst historians.

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 ...

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 ...

After the death of Cromwell, the Protectorate regime collapses and amid wild popular jubilation Charles II is confirmed as King of England, Ireland and Scotland. Rumoured to be a Catholic ...

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 ...