Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above : Portrait Of Oliver Cromwell Cromwell now advanced to Clonmel, and, after summoning it to surrender, began the siege (April 29th). The garrison was some 1,500 strong, and commanded by Hugh Dubh O’Neill, a nephew of Eoghan Ruadh. The siege dragged on after a fashion very exasperating to Cromwell, whose presence was urgently required [...]

AbovE: Ireland Fortified The war was now-1652-ended: but the pestilence conlinued; and famine came to help in the work of destruction. For two or three years these two scourges desolated the country. But worse even than all this was to come. Cromwell’s soldiers were to be paid by grants of confiscated estates when the country [...]