Buffun is wracked by the living nightmare of Irish history. His torments are surreal but no less frightening than the awful truth. When Oliver Cromwell turns up, the hapless buffoon can't cope. This Cromwell is a cocky tyrant who wants to run a football team, or start a taxi business. Enter the Belly, the IRA, an Irish giant, and Billy of the Boyne: 'William of Orange is polishing pianos / In convents and other delicate territories, / His nose purple from sipping turpentine.' Kennelly's Cromwell delighted and scandalised readers in Ireland when it was first published by a small Dublin press in 1983. This extraordinary, extravagantly Irish act of revenge has retained its power to shock.
- ISBN10 0946308136
- ISBN13 9780946308132
- Publish Date December 1983 (first published 1 January 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 October 2003
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint Beaver Row Press
- Edition Illustrated edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 146
- Language English