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Ireland 1650 - After Cromwell's lightning campaign the previous year, he is now marching his army in two columns bound for Kilkenny & Tipperary. Having ravaged Drogheda & Wexford, giving quarter to none, he marches on Clonmel with the expectation that the town will surrender immediately. Mission Clonmel is garrisoned by 1,500 seasoned Ulster Pikemen under the command of General Hugh Dubh O'Neill. They intend to sell their lives dearly to the Parlimentarians, who are bent on exterminating the Catholic Irish. Winner of the Tipperariana Book of the Year Award 2010, this 46 page full colour Irish historical graphic novel, is suitable for ages nine years and over.
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Curse of Cromwell: The Siege
Curse of Cromwell: The Siege
Dermot Poyntz Lee Grace
“Of England, that old tyrant, who makes her treaties with the whole wide world, but breaks her faith only with the weaker nations. Who during those ten years of war marched with her Bible in one hand and her sword within the other, strewing her texts around her while she burnt and killed beating her own record as a land of robbers and of hypocrites. Pass it down the generations, this story of a nation’s woes.”
Randal McDonnell – When Cromwell came to Drogheda.
ISBN: 978-0-9566558-0-6
Book jacket art & design by Lee Grace
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Hugh Dubh O’Neill – Nephew of Owen Roe. Born in Brussels & raised in the
Irish military community in Spain. Was a professional soldier in the Spanish Army.
James Butler, Marquis of Ormonde – Th e only protestant in his family.
When the Rising broke out he fl ed to Dublin while his estates in Kilkenny and Tipperary were seized and plundered by the insurgents. Ormond led the King’s
forces against the Confederates.
Owen Roe O’Neill – Nephew of Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Joined the
Spanish Army in which he fought for over 30 years.
Sir Pheilim O’Neill – Prominent Ulster nobleman & landowner. Conspirator in
the Rising of Octber 1641.
List of Characters & Bios: List of Characters & Bios:
Th omas Preston, Viscount Tara – Son of Catholic ‘Old English’ nobleman, Viscount
Gormanstown. Also served in Spanish Army & was appointed commander of the Confederate
Army of Leinster.
Lord David Roche – Irish commander in western Munster.
Archbishop Rinuccini – Educated by the Jesuits in Rome. Appointed papal
nuncio by Pope Innocent X to the Irish Confederation in 1645.
Murrough O’Brien, Earl of Inchiquin – Descended from Brian Boru. A rare
Gaelic Protestant. Known as ‘Murrough the Incendiary’. Ruthlessly kept control
of South West Ireland & asserted his authority in Munster.
Mayor John White – Mayor of Clonmel.
Colonel Michael Jones – Appointed Governor of Dublin & commander of Parliament’s forces in Dublin in 1647.
Oliver Cromwell – Known as ‘Old Noll’ by the Royalists.
Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill – Son of Lord Cork. Born in Lismore in County
Waterford. Returned to Ireland to protect his family’s land when the Rising commenced. Competed with Inchiquin
for leadership of the Munster Protestants.
Colonel Oliver Stephenson – Southern Confederate.
Alexander MacDonnell, Earl of Antrim – Commanded an Irish regiment.
General Robert Monroe – Fought in the Bishops’ Wars in Scotland. Took
command of the fi rst army raised by the Scottish Covenanters.
Curse ofCromwell:The Siege
Script by Dermot Poyntz
Artwork by Lee Grace
To my daughter, Rosa Poyntz.
To my wife, Denise Grace.
Published by Moccu Press, 2010Email: [email protected]: www.moccupress.com
ISBN: 978-0-9566558-0-6
Copyright © 2010 Moccu Press
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or in any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing
from the publisher.
Printed by New Pearl River Printing, Guangzhou City, China.
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