A Short History of Ireland
A Short History of Ireland

Author: John O'Beirne Ranelagh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-11

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1139789260

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This third edition of John O'Beirne Ranelagh's classic history of Ireland incorporates contemporary political and economic events as well as the latest archaeological and DNA discoveries. Comprehensively revised and updated throughout, it considers Irish history from the earliest times through the Celts, Cromwell, plantations, famine, Independence, the Omagh bomb, peace initiatives, and financial collapse. It profiles the key players in Irish history from Diarmuid MacMurrough to Gerry Adams and casts new light on the events, North and South, that have shaped Ireland today. Ireland's place in the modern world and its relationship with Britain, the USA and Europe is also examined with a fresh and original eye. Worldwide interest in Ireland continues to increase, but whereas it once focused on violence in Northern Ireland, the tumultuous financial events in the South have opened fresh debates and drawn fresh interest. This is a new history for a new era.

Abandon Automobile
Abandon Automobile

Author: Melba Joyce Boyd

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780814328101

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A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present.

Ireland, 1912-1985
Ireland, 1912-1985

Author: Joseph Lee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 1148

ISBN-13: 9780521266482

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Assessing the relative importance of British influence and of indigenous impulses in shaping an independent Ireland, this book identifies the relationship between personality and process in determining Irish history.

A Brief History of Ireland
A Brief History of Ireland

Author: Richard Killeen

Publisher: Robinson

Published: 2012-01-19

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1780330731

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From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for liberty. A Brief History of Ireland is the perfect introduction to this exceptional place, its people and its culture. Ireland has been home to successive groups of settlers - Celts, Vikings, Normans, Anglo-Scots, Huguenots. It has imported huge ideas, none bigger than Christianity which it then re-exported to Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the Tudor era it became the first colony of the developing English Empire. Its fraught and sometimes brutal relationship with England has dominated its modern history. Killeen argues that religion was decisive in all this: Ireland remained substantially Catholic, setting it at odds with the larger island culturally, religiously and politically. But its own culture and identity have stayed strong, most obviously in literature with a magnificent tradition of writing from the Book of Kells to the modern masters: Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and Heaney.