OLIVER CROMWELL

Cromwell leading assault on Drogheda

Oliver Cromwell, Theodore Roosevelt, Scribner, New York 1900, page 165

Killincarrig Castle

Image by C. Love

Cromwellian settlement plan - 'to Hell or to Connaught !'

The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, by John P. Prendergast, Mc Glashan & Gill, Dublin 1875.

From the illuminated First Page of the Accounts of James Standish, Esq., General of Ireland 1654-56

 “God made them as stubble to our swords”

• Cromwell was a strange mix of self-righteous godliness and utter cruelty.
• On arriving in Ireland, he laid siege to Drogheda (September 11^th, 1649). 2000 died in the massacre.
• He proceeded to Wexford (October 2^nd,1649). 2000 soldiers and 1500 townspeople were slaughtered.

“God, in his righteous justice, brought a just judgement upon them.”

• On his journey from Drogheda to Wexford, Cromwell spent one or two nights at Killincarrig Castle, which had a small garrison of his men.