Historical Sketch of the Persecutions Suffered by the Catholics of Ireland. Under the Rule of Cromwell and the Puritans. By Rev. Patrick Francis Moran. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1884. First Edition. Pp 480. Publisher’s buff cloth boards, decorated in gilt with lettering in gilt & black. Light fading to boards, neat library stamps to preliminary leaves, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Drawing on state papers, ecclesiastical records, and contemporary eyewitness testimony, Moran reconstructs the military campaigns, mass confiscations, forced transplantations, and suppression of Catholic worship that defined the Cromwellian regime in Ireland.

It blends historical narrative with moral argument, positioning the Cromwellian period as a watershed of religious and national trauma.