For a video called "Cromwell vs Ireland" there is remarkably little about Cromwell in Ireland.

The irony of ironies is that Cromwell's health deteriorated significantly when campaigning in Ireland where he was diagnosed with acute tertian fever, a condition that worsened and quickened his death in 1658.

The Conquest of Ireland arguably wasn’t fully completed until the Act of Union in 1800 when the Kingdom of Ireland (after centuries of constitutional and regime changes) was forcibly merged into the British state (though our civil service and courts remained separate, and we retained our legislative representatives). Those representatives forced to sit in London instead of Dublin, but went back to Ireland in 1919 and declared independence in a reconstituted Irish Parliament (copying the Hungarian walkout of the Austrian parliament in the 1860s).

European history is very complicated.

So contuing the English Civil War in Ireland reduced the population of Ireland by half I mean half. Does that not sound like a genocide. The fact is that the population of Ireland was 50% of what it was after the English brought THEIR civil war to Ireland then called it an Irish problem. They then seeded the country with THEIR new colonists and called any unrest an Irish problem. Cromwell is a hated figure in Ireland and it will remain so despite the efforts by some to rewrite history.

From Cromwell's letter of 19th October 1649 to the Governor of Ross, who was trying to negotiate surrender terms with Cromwell: "For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience. But if by liberty of conscience you mean a liberty to exercise the Mass, I judge it best to use plain dealing, and to let you know, where the Parliament of England have power, that will not be allowed of." The contradiction between the first and second sentences of these words written by Cromwell sums up very well the contradiction at the heart of the whole Puritan movement, and also the contradiction of centuries of attempts to 'extend English liberties' to Ireland.

general monk visited my town with a gunboat and when he could siege our castle he burned the place down then cromwell himself turned up and demanded the doors be opened, the lady of the castle refused and held out for 6 weeks then worked out a pardon for her husband and the castle spared, killyleagh castle

“I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.”
― Oliver Cromwell

Trying to watch this at 5am when I'm meant to be asleep when Alan Partridge's voice double appears. Zero chance I'm dozing off with him teaching me about Cromwell - I'll never get back  to sleep until I hear "Ahaaaa!"

It's like during the French Revolution, with Napoleon rising through the ranks against the monarchy and then ending up being the king or emporer anyways, even though it's what they fought against, like Acton said, "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely."

I do so wish they would number these documentaries ( if in a series)

The finally statement at 47:23 is correct.  Pushing maters too far, is still a modern problem, even for the common man.  We don't know when to say when.  We don't know how or want to quit while we are ahead and push and issue for way longer and seek for more than can be tolerated by most people.

Its a wonder we survived,but we fled to the mountains,forests,and lived hand to mouth...for centuries😮

Great video! Fascibating time in history that deserves to be better known. There's a lot of areas to explore in Montrose's campaign against Argyll like the Battle of Auldearn (1645)

King Charles II dug up the dead body of Cromwell, had him put on trail, then beheaded him & placed his head on a Spike in 1661.
Cromwell's legacy even among his own people is quite complicated.

You messed up the intro part and some of the video is corrupted.

Being of English decent but having Irish surname I find intriguing history lesson,I now know who Cromwell was & the bloody battles that occurred, why Ireland hates the English.

Jaysus wept. The most brutal thing about this documentary is the continuous bad  pronunciation of town of Drogheda.

This is the sanitised version of Cromwell in Ireland. He was famous for his scorched earth policies. No need to kill the women and children when you can starve them by destroying the food supply. When I was studying history in the seventies the figure estimated to have died as a direct consequence of his time in Ireland was between 200,000 and 250,000, mostly due to starvation. So it was much more of a religious based ethnic cleansing of the unwanted Catholic (or Papist as one of your historian's calls them here) population than is acknowledged in the video.

"The financial demands placed by the regime on the public became too great, the regime became unpopular."
Reminds me how present day feels (36:38)

Thank you ☺️