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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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
