Cromwell’s actions at Drogheda and Wexford where his New Model Army slaughtered most of the inhabitants were among the “greatest atrocities in Anglo-Irish history,” the British ambassador to Ireland Paul Johnston has said.
It is the most comprehensive compendium to date of everything Britain’s Lord Protector did and said in his tempestuous life. It features 1,077 manuscript documents by Cromwell. Many have never been made public before including documents relating to Ireland.
Mr Johnston recalled that Winston Churchill had once wanted to name a Royal Navy ship after Cromwell, but his proposal was vetoed by King George V as it would be offensive to Irish people. Mr Johnston noted Churchill’s comments that the memory of Cromwell had “become a potent obstacle to the harmony of the English-speaking people throughout the world”.
“In that context I would surmise that the people Oliver Callan interviewed would not be untypical of otherwise well-educated British people who frankly don’t know much about Cromwell’s legacy in Ireland”.
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