As scholars gather in Dublin to debate the Puritan’s life, one man is insisting Ireland must apologise for blackening the Lord Protector’s name
Tom Reilly has been mocked, vilified, challenged to a duel and threatened with death for waging a one-man campaign to rehabilitate the greatest villain in Ireland’s history.
The Irish amateur historian has spent three decades attempting to convince his compatriots that Oliver Cromwell, the 17th century English conqueror, was honourable, decent and not genocidal.
