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Making a Massacre: Cromwell, Ireland and the Slaughter of Innocents Scandal (Not a Real History Book)

Making a Massacre: Cromwell, Ireland and the Slaughter of Innocents Scandal (Not a Real History Book)

Reilly, Tom

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General World HistoryHistoriographyIrish History

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1803415037
ISBN13: 9781803415031
Publisher: Liberalis Books
Published: Jul 1 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
If history were music, then the genre of this book would be punk. For nearly 400 years, it has been widely accepted that Oliver Cromwell committed civilian atrocities at Drogheda and Wexford in 1649, thus adversely infecting Anglo-Irish relations for that entire period. As well as other events in Irish history, Cromwell in Ireland has often been weaponised in the North of Ireland. Still, today, emotions about this topic run very deep. Imagine for a moment that Cromwell is completely innocent of these charges of genocide: the overwhelming verdict of history thus far. Imagine also a scenario in which this anomaly in the teaching of Irish history were discovered by a non-historian, an amateur who failed second-level history. This is that story. This is an accurate (and sideways) account of one man's lone battle to overturn this miscarriage of historical justice - two middle fingers to mainstream academia. Most significantly, this is the story of the pushback the author has encountered from academics, in general, who have closed ranks in their reluctance to embrace incontrovertible facts. This is the uncomfortable truth that challenges Ireland's role of the ultimate victim of the seventeenth century's conflicts and how this historical period has been - and still is - profoundly abused to suit the Saorstát Éireann narrative.

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