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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kuijpers, Erika
• Pollmann, Judith
• Mueller, Johannes
• Steen, Jasper
• Judith Pollmann
• Johannes Müller
• Jasper van der Steen
• Erika Kuijpers

Titel

THE ODIOUS DEMON FROM ACROSS THE SEA: OLIVER CROMWELL, MEMORY AND THE DISLOCATIONS OF IRELAND

Ist Teil von

• Memory before Modernity, 2013, p.149

Ort / Verlag

The Netherlands: BRILL

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As with any country subject to colonisation, partition, and dispossession, Ireland harbours a long social memory containing many villains, though none so overwhelmingly enduring—indeed, so historically overriding—as Oliver Cromwell. Invading the country in 1649 with his New Model Army in order to reassert control over an ongoing Catholic rebellion-turned royalist threat, Cromwell was in charge when thousands were killed during the storming of the towns of Drogheda and Wexford, before he proceeded on to a sometimes-brutal campaign in which the rest of the country was eventually subdued, despite considerable resistance in the next few years. Though Cromwell would