Eyewitness to Irish history

Comparing the readings compiled here to snapshots, the renowned Celtic scholar Peter Berresford Ellis offers what, in essence, is a family photo album of Ireland and the Irish people - beginning with Golamh, the legendary leader of the band of Iberian Celts who settled the island more than three tho...

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Main Author: Ellis, Peter Berresford (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2004]
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-304) and index. 
505 0 |a Ancient Ireland -- Early Christian Ireland -- The Viking terror -- Ireland and the Angevin Empire -- Irish princes and Norman lords -- The Tudor conquests -- The flight of the princes -- Obedience to the English Empire -- The Insurrection of 1641 -- The Cromwellian conquest -- The William conquest -- The penal laws -- The Insurrection of 1798 -- Union, 1801; Insurrection, 1803; Catholic Emancipation, 1829 -- Repeal, starvation and the 1848 Insurrection -- The Insurrection of 1867 and the Land League -- The Insurrection of 1916 -- The War of Independence, 1919-21 -- The Civil War, 1922-23, and the aftermath -- Irish neutrality and the Irish Republic of 1949 -- A Protestant state and civil rights -- The long war. 
520 1 |a " A unique documentary history of Irish civilization from ancient times to the present, Eyewitness to Irish History draws upon original source materials to capture the tumultuous events and distinctive texture of Irish history like no other book. 
520 8 |a Comparing the readings compiled here to snapshots, the renowned Celtic scholar Peter Berresford Ellis offers what, in essence, is a family photo album of Ireland and the Irish people - beginning with Golamh, the legendary leader of the band of Iberian Celts who settled the island more than three thousand years ago, as told in the Lebor Gabala Erenn, or Book of Invasions, and concluding with gripping firsthand accounts by those on both sides of the bloody civil conflict in Northern Ireland." 
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