IRELAND: History of a Nation New Edition

The history of Ireland tends to become the history of England in Ireland, but this book gives Ireland to the Irish people. It is an original and very readable history of their story from pre-historic times to the preset day with all the implications of Brexit. Updated edition, with brilliant fact windows on historical events such as the Ferguson Tractor, an Armagh Tea Party, RMS Titanic, Knock Airport, Geoffrey Keating and the Four Masters, Ptolemy's Map, The Black Death, Irish Dress, The Royal Schools, Ormond and Dublin, Huguenots and Palatines, the Wild Geese Canals, Edmund Burke, Thomas Moore, O'Connell and Peel, Father Mathew, Anglo-Irish and Reading Rooms among them. With a fabulous chronology of Ireland, past events have often created disarray in British politics. Covering politics right into 21st century Ireland, chapters cover Legends, Origins, Saints and Scholars, Invasions, the Anglo-Normans, the Land of Peace and the Land of War, Ireland's Elizabethan Wars, The Stewart Kingdom, The Ascendency Rules, The Age of Revolution, Union, Hunger and Winning the Lad. The Irish question had featured strongly in the international policies of Spanish and French governments for hundreds of years, and Irish soldiers played significant parts in battles of many countries, from the 30 Years' War to the American Civil War, yet Irish history remains elusive. For the greater part of the millennium while Europe seethed, churned and changed, Ireland did not function as an independent national state. Very well organised with clear headers, dozens of beautiful woodcut line art drawings and useful index. 426 pages in well bound softback.