Leading young historian Micheal O Siochru will present the series, offering fascinating and controversial new insights into this crucial time in Irish history. He puts the conquest in its proper context, showing that it was the apex of many years of conflict between Britain and Ireland. He looks at the war itself, exploring its causes and course, Cromwells struggles with his Irish adversaries, and the bitter legacy that still haunts the nations folk memory, three and a half centuries on. But even this is not the full story. Strikingly, Michea¡l reveals how Gods Englishman helped to lay the foundations for the modern Ireland that we know today.