God's Executioner - Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland

Informationen zum Autor Micheál Ó Siochrú is a native of Dublin, lectures in history at Trinity College, Dublin and has written extensively on 17th-century Ireland. His publications include Confederate Ireland 1642-1649: A Constitutional and Political Analysis (Dublin, 1999) and Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s (Dublin, 2001). Klappentext Cromwell spent only nine months of his eventful life in Ireland, yet he stands accused there of war crimes, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing. In a century of unrelenting, bloody warfare and religious persecution throughout Europe, Cromwell was, in many ways, a product of his times. Vorwort God's Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland , by Micheál Ó Siochrú, is a compelling insight into one of the most controversial figures in Anglo-Irish history. Zusammenfassung Cromwell spent only nine months of his eventful life in Ireland, yet he stands accused there of war crimes, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing. In a century of unrelenting, bloody warfare and religious persecution throughout Europe, Cromwell was, in many ways, a product of his times.

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• Authors: , Dr. Micheal O Siochru, Micheal O Siochru, Dr Micheal O Siochru, Micheal Siochru, Micheal @00000041@#211 Siochru, Micheal 211 Siochru, Micheal O Siochru, Micheál Ó Siochrú
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.2009
• EAN: 9780571218462
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21846-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; England, History, History: specific events & topics, military history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Invasion; Military; Religion; Violence; War