The Devil from Over the Sea: Remembering and Forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland

ISBN-13: 9780198848318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 432 str.

Sarah (Professor of history at the Graduate Center and Queen

Opis

Since his brutal conquest of Ireland, Oliver Cromwell has attained the status of Ireland's national ogre. This book uncovers the ways in which he was memorialized and sometimes conveniently forgotten from 1660 to 1900, exploring his diverse personae in history writing, religious works, literature, political polemic, folklore, and the landscape.

Recenzje

This fascinating book explores how Oliver Cromwell has been remembered, forgotten, misremembered, demonized, and mythologized in Ireland and Irish America for more than three centuries. D. R. Bisson, CHOICE

O autorze

Sarah Covington is Professor of History at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City of New York, and the Director of Irish Studies at Queens College. She is the author of The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth Century England (2003) and Wounds, Flesh and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England (2009).