Author: Poyntz, Dermot
Number Of Pages: 52
Release Date: 01-11-2010
Details: Product Description Based on the siege of Clonmel in 1650 by Oliver Cromwell. Also explores the factional struggles, & political events leading up to this defining period in Ireland's turbulent history, such as The October Rising in 1641 & the Confederate Wars that ensued. From the Back Cover "Of England, that old tyrant, who makes her treaties with the whole wide world, but breaks her faith only with the weaker nations. Who during those ten years of war marched with her Bible in one hand and her sword within the other, strewing her texts around her while she burnt and killedbeating her own record as a land of robbers and of hypocrites. Pass it down the generations, this story of a nation's woes." Randal McDonnell - When Cromwell came to Drogheda.
EAN: 9780956655806
Languages: English
Binding: Paperback
Item Condition: UsedVeryGood