{"product_id":"the-devil-from-over-the-sea-remembering-and-forgetting-oliver-cromwell-in-ireland-hardcover","title":"The Devil from Over the Sea: Remembering and Forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Covington\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Devil from over the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Covington, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of history at the Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Covington\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of History at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City of New York, and the Director of Irish Studies at Queens College. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth Century England\u003c\/em\u003e (2003) and \u003cem\u003eWounds, Flesh and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England\u003c\/em\u003e (2009).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 24, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158832320647,"sku":"9780198848318","price":70.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/f10c34772963b589e2601220bc944dc1.webp?v=1733261930","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-devil-from-over-the-sea-remembering-and-forgetting-oliver-cromwell-in-ireland-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}