The Devil from Over the Sea
The Devil from Over the Sea

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Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-03-24

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0198848315

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In Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes conveniently 'forgotten' in historical, religious, political, and literary texts, according to the interests of different communities across time. Cromwell's powerful afterlife in Ireland, however, cannot be understood without also investigating his presence in folklore and the landscape, in ruins and curses. Nor can he be separated from the idea of the 'Cromwellian': a term which came to elicit an entire chain of contemptuous associations that would begin after his invasion and assume a wholly new force in the nineteenth century. What emerges from all these memorializing traces is a multitudinous Cromwell who could be represented as brutal, comic, sympathetic, or satanic. He could be discarded also, tellingly, from the accounts of the past, and especially by those which viewed him as an embarrassment or worse. In addition to exploring the many reasons why Cromwell was so vehemently remembered or forgotten in Ireland, Sarah Covington finally uncovers the larger truths conveyed by sometimes fanciful or invented accounts. Contrary to being damaging examples of myth-making, the memorializations contained in martyrologies, folk tales, or newspaper polemics were often productive in cohering communities, or in displaying agency in the form of 'counter-memories' that claimed Cromwell for their own and reshaped Irish history in the process.

Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914
Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914

Author: John Wolffe

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-11-28

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1350019283

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During and immediately after the First World War, there was a merging of Christian and nationalist traditions of martyrdom, expressed in the design of war cemeteries and war memorials, and the state funeral of the Unknown Warrior in 1920. John Wolffe explores the subsequent development of these traditions of 'sacred' and 'secular' martyrdom, analysing the ways in which they operated - sometimes in parallel, sometimes merged together and sometimes in conflict with each other. Particular topics explored include the Protestant commemoration of Marian and missionary martyrs, and the Roman Catholic campaign for the canonization of the 'saints and martyrs of England'. Secular martyrdom is discussed in relation to military conflicts especially the Second World War and the Falklands. In Ireland there was a particularly persistent merging of sacred and secular martyrdom in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916 although by the time of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' in the later twentieth-century these traditions diverged. In covering these themes, the book also offers historical and comparative context for understanding present-day acts of martyrdom in the form of suicide attacks.

Memorials of Those Who Suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland
Memorials of Those Who Suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland

Author: Myles O'Reilly

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-21

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9780365150312

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Excerpt from Memorials of Those Who Suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland: In the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries Christians are told to remember that we have a great cloud of witnesses over our head, and' are called on, laying aside every weight of sin which surrounds'us, to run by patience to the fight proposed, strengthened by the example of the saints, and are reminded that the just seem to the eyes of the foolish to die, but indeed are in peace. Hence, from the first ages of Christianity, it was looked upon as a sacred duty to preserve the memory of the lives and deaths of those who had served Christ, and who had been deemed worthy to suffer for his name the memory of their deaths even more than that of their lives, because, while death to the pagan was the final end, (the limit to the labors and successes of great men, ) to the Christian it was the very instrument of Victory - the moment of triumph to the former, it was the termination of existence 5 to the latter, it was the commencement of the real life: for the former, the cause fell with its defender; for the latter, the triumph of the truth was secured by the death of its martyr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Insular Christianity
Insular Christianity

Author: Robert Armstrong

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-06-04

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1526183773

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This collection of essays on the alternative establishments which both Presbyterians and Catholics attempted to create in Britain and Ireland offers a dynamic new perspective on the evolution of post-reformation religious communities. Deriving from the Insular Christianity project in Dublin, the book combines essays by some of the leading scholars in the field with work by brilliant and upcoming researchers. The contributions, all of which were commissioned, range from synoptic essays which fill in gaps in the existing historiography to tightly coherent research essays that break new ground with regard to a series of central institutional and intellectual issues and problems. This is a book which will appeal to all those interested in the religious history of early modern Britain and Ireland.