I'm from Ireland. One of the worst curses that could be used here was "The curse of Cromwell on you!"/"Mallacht Chrombhéil ort!" His memory was still hated up to the 1950s. However his attack on the town of Drogheda, though ruthless, involved the slaughter mostly of his enemies from England, who had fled to that town. The brave defence of the town of Clonmel impressed Cromwell so much that he agreed to allow the native defenders march to the coast and thereafter to France following their surrender. PS "Cromwell" is in fact a gaelic name ie "Crom-bhéal" meaning "Turned-down mouth" referring to a "Turned-down Mustache" probably.

@CL-we8tn

Жыл бұрын

Or grouch... Lol

@Desert-Father

4 ай бұрын

Please try and defend "To hell or to Connaught" now. Revisionist nonsense

Couldn't get out of my mind that the author sounded like Elizabeth 1st from Blackadder

Great episode!

Honestly a cromwellian hereditary republic would look a lot like the United Provinces with the stadtholder

I’m a new subscriber to the channel. Tom, Dom and their guests are incredibly entertainig. 😊

Ooo I'm in!

Great program but way too many commercial interruptions. A commercial break literally every 3-4 minutes makes for an unpleasant listening experience.

@phillbarnes8513

4 ай бұрын

Really?… I only had 2 commercials Tbf 🤷‍♂️

@simonh6788

4 ай бұрын

You can listen on Spotify or other podcast provider and only have a couple

@PlasticSausages

3 ай бұрын

I would swear they add an advert as soon as you are not looking at the screen. Big brother is watching.

@simongleaden2864

3 ай бұрын

I'm in Great Britain - I didn't notice any ad breaks. Maybe KZread handles adverts differently in different countries?

@baarbacoa

3 ай бұрын

That's KZread doing. Not the podcasters

The only sad thing that I've heard here today is that Tom Holand is a loyal reader of The Guardian!

@billythedog-309

21 күн бұрын

Poor, poor you.

As Lenin grasped ; in 1917 most people want peace and bread .

Came here to try and find out what happend to the nobility during the time of the republic.

@peterrobinson8588

2 ай бұрын

A large part of the nobility had supported the Parliament side in the war.

What were the names of the two books mentioned, please?

@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733

Жыл бұрын

1984 and a brave new world.

@frances081097

Жыл бұрын

Restless Republic was the history book mentioned (Anna Keay) The historical novel mentioned earlier was An Instance of The Fingerpost by Ian Pears

Have you not over done this. There's a lot of revisionism in relation to Ireland. Cromwell did not outdo the 30 years war and did you miss out the small point of parts of Ireland holding out for the King or Irelands part in the civil war? Did Parliament go there without cause? Very Manchster Guardian.

Sunak is not a Muslim....he is a Hindu

Fascinating subject, but the sound quality is so bad that I cannot bear to listen to the whole episode -it's just too much of an effort.

@keithkaosHarv

2 ай бұрын

Is it that bad? It’s not as if you are listening to an orchestra.

The Republic of England should be the proper title! 'Britain' did not exist as a politicl entity until Scotland was forced into 'Union' in 1707. England is not Britain but but a nation in the British Isles along with three others who have separate histories, identities and languages. Cymru am byth!

@uafchris

6 ай бұрын

England and Scotland were officially unified together as one country from 1657 until the restoration.

@williamhaines7876

5 ай бұрын

I would suggest doing some research into the settlement and maybe you will be surprised at Scotlands willingness to unite with England

@KeithWilliamMacHendry

5 ай бұрын

@@williamhaines7876 So there was a plebiscite was there? Or just a vote for the ruling elite? If there had been a referendum then the union would have been halted. Scotland was brought into union for empire, not altruism or any of the other nonsense spouted by the British state & its minions. They didn't as so often lied about bail Scotland out, they offered money lost by the elites in the Darien scheme as an effective bribe to accept union & access to empire. They took it & subsequently Scotland played a disproportionately large role in empire, for all the good it did for the ordinary citizens of this whole island & beyond.

@michaellynn8081

5 ай бұрын

Scotland was certainly not forced into 'Union' or anything else in 1707 . That is a myth which the Scots have enjoyed whinging about ever since. You will find that actually the Scottish nobles and Scottish power brokers involved were more than happy and willing to sign the documents , join the union and even happier still to take the large sums of money they pocketed in the process ( sound particularly 'patriotic' to you by the way...?) . To put it bluntly , at the time Scotland needed us and the union much more than we needed them and the union. They are the facts. Do the research. England forever !

@Desert-Father

4 ай бұрын

It was theocratic military junta not a republic. It was governed by a fundamentalist military purged legislature that governed subject to the de facto veto of a fanatical military council and then a military dictator for life in Cromwell. If Brits saw this happen in any other country they would label it as such.

Better than the muslim hand we have now