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First edition. |
| Description |
vii, 409 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-399) and index. |
| Contents |
Aftermath -- Religious Cromwell -- Political Cromwell -- Propertied Cromwell -- Ruinous Cromwell -- Folkloric Cromwell -- Migrated Cromwell. |
| Summary |
"Of all the historical figures who have haunted the Irish imagination, none have generated more compelling and malignant power than Oliver Cromwell. The Devil from over the Sea: Remembering and Forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland explores the many circuitous channels through which Cromwell's afterlife was shaped by social memories or acts of forgetting that grappled with the momentous ways in which he affected the country's history. Remembrances of Cromwell pervaded religious, historical, literary, political, and folkloric narratives, just as they entered into material culture or migrated across the Irish diaspora in the centuries that followed. This book attempts to examine all of these manifestations of memory and forgetting, and the ways in which they affected the course of Irish history in turn. Working from new methodologies and neglected sources, and utilizing recent theoretical approaches, The Devil from Over the Sea presents the first interdisciplinary book-length study of Cromwell's memory in Ireland, revealing the sometimes-surprising and dizzying ways in which he was deployed as a villain or hero by different social communities across time. Cromwell's absence in some historical accounts is as revealing as his presence in others, including those which extended across oral, print, elite and popular cultures. As this book argues, it is only by investigating all these dimensions of Cromwell's posthumous fame that one may come closer to fully understanding the true extent and depth of what he came to mean in Ireland"--Publisher's description. |
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Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Public opinion.
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Collective memory -- Ireland -- History.
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Ireland -- History -- 1649-1660 -- Historiography.
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Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. (OCoLC)fst00055660
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Collective memory. (OCoLC)fst01739814
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Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
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Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01082785
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Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
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| Chronological Term |
1649-1660
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Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Remembering and forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland |
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Remembering & forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland |
| ISBN |
9780198848318 (hbk.) |
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0198848315 (hbk.) |
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