Conquest - The Curse of Cromwell

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In the grand finale of our Conquest series, Naomi and Tim dig into one of the most notorious episodes of Irish history, starring none other than Oliver Cromwell. We explore his rise to power as a major player in the puritan faction of England's civil war, and how he came to view the task of "pacifying" Ireland both as a way to solidify his support, and as a kind of holy war. Cromwell's actions in Ireland were genocidal. Nevertheless, we discuss how his actions in Ireland continue to be played down among historians in Britain to this day. Naomi and Tim discuss more, including the uncomfortable resonances to current day news, in a bonus debrief episode over on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/halfpint-debrief-130363450 Micheál Ó Siochrú's authorative work on Cromwell, 'God's Executioner', is available here: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571218462-gods-executioner/?srsltid=AfmBOoqKEZw77QejfJJh-6OoFsKDvgeO55jZSaEZMvc665fFaNgx2SPE

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay.
0:35.2	And welcome back to the Irish passport.
0:36.4	Hello everyone.
0:41.4	You are joining us for something of a sad day because Tim, it is the last installment of our mammoth conquest series.
0:44.8	It's true.
0:45.7	We've made it.
0:46.4	Everyone, we made it more than a full year later.
0:49.3	We're coming up almost to a year and a half, listeners.
0:52.0	If you haven't been with us since the beginning of this little journey, or rather long journey,
0:56.8	I think it was in January, 2024 or something, when I decided to make an episode about the
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