In 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.
The Devil from over the Sea 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.
What 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.
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