Cromwell: God's Executioner

CROMWELL IN IRELAND is Tile Films' hugely ambitious new docudrama series exploring the great nemesis of Irish history: Oliver Cromwell.

Starring Owen Roe as Oliver Cromwell, Declan Conlon as Hugh Dubh ONeill and Catherine Walker as Elizabeth Price, Cromwell in Ireland is directed by two-time IFTA winning director Maurice Sweeney and presented by leading historian Dr Micheál Ó Siochrú.

Airing to coincide with the 350th anniversary of Cromwells death on 3rd September 1658, the series consolidates Ó Siochrús fascinating take on this crucial time in Irish history. An estimated 500,000 Irish people died from war, plague and famine during Cromwells military campaign, making it one of the greatest catastrophes ever to befall the country. But strikingly, Micheál reveals how Gods Englishman helped to lay the foundations for the modern Ireland that we know today.

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• RTE

[jigen08]

@Yorgar: it's not as if the English were fully behind Cromwell or approved of what he did. It'd be a bit like asking the people of Iraq to blame themselves for the crimes of Saddam Hussein. The best way to "remember" the crimes of the past is to refrain from committing them again, not walk around with a guilt complex.

On the other hand, it takes a strong people not to turn the past crimes committed on them into part of their identity. With such a rich history why identify as perpetual victims?

[empireofbritain]

Oliver Cromwell showed the Irish and the Scots that if you fuck with England, England will fuck with you. The Irish deserved everything they got. 

[Yorgar]

i like how its said that its a tragedy that the english have forgotten what he did and 2 more things 1 tacitcally he was incompotent he had only one plan and 2 he got his in the end

[AvatarMarxon90]

@creamius88 A JOKE? THIS IS SPARTA!

[donwan99]

Rome was the first republic is corrupt .The roman catholics copied everything to claim it adam and eve when people made to eire first tat we R cacasian over euro mohammed the tan over a black mohammed people with red hair come from the same as brown hair The republic under roman catholism french pope took the word from a roman public affair & changed nto perfect english. what happend was the roylist won ova english republic &stoped it for the USA .RE PUBLIC no mater wat evn religion T.A.L

[creamius88]

@donwan99 WHAT IS THIS A JOKE

[Scoob505]

He was scum.

[677222]

love him or hate him, oliver cromwell laid the foundations of the free world

[jonkase11]

God Bless Cromwell and the English!!

[donwan99]

Oliver Cromwell was demon of the celts was sent to ireland to inheireann whitch had just changed from the state of eire to be under monarchy oliver cromwell was bread from eire (netherlands) to attack the impearlists who had been attacking celtic tradition to ethnic clense themselves the impearlists had been attacking eire using god adam and eve taking every building owned by any king and raped the people using roman catholic gensis (Cromwell) comes from Well a Scelt sent to Re public EIRE