If you click here you will get to an article from The Guardian about an Irish amateur historian who is on a mission to save ‘bogeyman’ Cromwell from genocide charges.
The Irish historian has spent three decades attempting to convince his compatriots that Oliver Cromwell, the 17th century English conqueror, was honourable, decent and not genocidal.
Reilly’s contention that Ireland needs to rewrite its history books appears all the more quixotic because he is from Drogheda, the County Louth town and site of Cromwell’s most infamous slaughter. “We should apologise to Cromwell’s family for blackening his name, for making him a monster,” Reilly, 62, said last week. “We are teaching our children propaganda that perpetuates anti-English prejudice.” The Puritan leader is, in fact, about to come under renewed scrutiny. Oxford University Press will publish The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, a multi-volume tome of more than 1,000 texts written and edited by leading British and Irish historians.
HAve a read and tell me what you think.
Mr Kydd.
