A History of Ireland in 100 Episodes

Ancient, Medieval and Modern Ireland

Jonathan Bardon, Fergal Tobin

• Publisher: Gill Books
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780717190003
• eBook ISBN: 9780717190010
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

This authoritative and comprehensive history of Ireland covers the entire history of the island from the Ice Age to the peace process in 100 short episodes. In this thoughtful analysis of Irish society, Bardon integrates the significant cultural and literary history of Ireland with its political and social past.Based on the hugely popular BBC radio series A Short History of Ireland, each episode stands alone, providing a snippet of Irish history in five minutes' reading. In turn, to read each episode in sequence from beginning to end provides a magisterial history of Europe's most western land.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Preface
• Episode 1: The Irish landscape: the last Ice Age and after
• Episode 2: Pioneers of the Stone Age: from hunter-gatherers to the first farmers
• Episode 3: Megalithic monuments and the beginning of metalworking
• Episode 4: The coming of the Celts
• Episode 5: Preparing for the Otherworld in pre-Christian Ireland
• Episode 6: Patrick the Briton
• Episode 7: The early Irish Church
• Episode 8: Kings, nobles, ‘men of art’ and commoners
• Episode 9: ‘Not the work of men but of angels’
• Episode 10: Colmcille, Aidan, Columbanus, wandering Irish andmarauding Vikings
• Episode 11: ‘There came great sea-belched shoals of foreigners’: Ireland and the Vikings
• Episode 12: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf
• Episode 13: ‘At the creek of Baginbun, Ireland was lost and won’
• Episode 14: The first time an English monarch sets foot in Ireland
• Episode 15: Creating the Lordship of Ireland
• Episode 16: John, Lord of Ireland: ‘dreading the fury of the king’
• Episode 17: The feudal transformation of Ireland
• Episode 18: When Edward Bruce ‘caused the whole of Ireland totremble’
• Episode 19: Pandemic: The Black Death
• Episode 20: King Art, King Richard and the Pale
• Episode 21: The rebellion of Silken Thomas
• Episode 22: Turbulence under the Tudors
• Episode 23: Shane the Proud
• Episode 24: ‘Warring against a she-tyrant’: holy war in Ulster and Munster
• Episode 25: The wreck of the Armada
• Episode 26: ‘The wild Irish are barbarous and most filthy in their diet’
• Episode 27: ‘A fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and anapt cloak for a thief’
• Episode 28: Granuaile: the Pirate Queen of Connacht
• Episode 29: The Nine Years’ War begins
• Episode 30: ‘We spare none of what quality or sex soever’
• Episode 31: The Battle of Christmas Eve
• Episode 32: The Treaty of Mellifont
• Episode 33: Borderers: ‘A fractious and naughty people’
• Episode 34: The Flight of the Earls
• Episode 35: A bizarre beginning: planting Down and Antrim
• Episode 36: The Plantation of Ulster
• Episode 37: ‘Great things move slowly’
• Episode 38: London companies and ‘the scum of both nations’
• Episode 39: From smouldering resentment to a failed plot
• Episode 40: The Eagle Wing and the Black Oath
• Episode 41: The 1641 Massacres
• Episode 42: A world turned upside down
• Episode 43: The curse of Cromwell
• Episode 44: ‘To Hell or Connacht’
• Episode 45: Cromwell and the Scots in Ulster
• Episode 46: Three kings and thirteen apprentice boys
• Episode 47: ‘No surrender!’
• Episode 48: Enniskillen and the Boyne
• Episode 49: Galloping Hogan, Sarsfield and the walls of Limerick
• Episode 50: Athlone, Aughrim, Limerick and a treaty
• Episode 51: ‘Seven ill years’
• Episode 52: The Penal Laws
• Episode 53: Scots ‘are coming over here daily’
• Episode 54: ‘Jet-black prelatic calumny’
• Episode 55: ‘Like a contagious distemper’
• Episode 56: Bliadhain an Áir: ‘Year of the Slaughter’
• Episode 57: Flaxseed and prosperity
• Episode 58: The second city of the Empire
• Episode 59: ‘The Irish gentry are an expensive people’
• Episode 60: ‘In America they may get good land’
• Episode 61: Volunteers, Grattan and the madness of King George
• Episode 62: The United Irishmen
• Episode 63: General Lake and the Orange Order
• Episode 64: Rebellion: Wexford and Antrim, 1798
• Episode 65: The Act of Union
• Episode 66: Daniel O’Connell and the road to Emancipation
• Episode 67: Mass movement politics and Catholic Emancipation
• Episode 68: The Tithe War
• Episode 69: Repeal of the Union
• Episode 70: On the eve of the Great Famine
• Episode 71: ‘The food of the whole nation has perished’
• Episode 72: Black ’47
• Episode 73: Fenians and disestablishment
• Episode 74: The Industrial Revolution in east Ulster
• Episode 75: The Ulster apogee
• Episode 76: The Land Question
• Episode 77: Charles Stewart Parnell
• Episode 78: The birth of Ulster unionism
• Episode 79: Parnell ascendant
• Episode 80: Committee Room 15
• Episode 81: After Parnell
• Episode 82: Rural revolution
• Episode 83: New beginnings: 1905
• Episode 84: Home rule again
• Episode 85: Lockout and citizen armies
• Episode 86: The Great War
• Episode 87: The Easter Rising: an Ireland transformed
• Episode 88: The new Sinn Féin and the conscription crisis
• Episode 89: War of Independence and treaty
• Episode 90: The partition of Ireland
• Episode 91: Green against green
• Episode 92: The Irish Free State
• Episode 93: Fianna Fáil in power
• Episode 94: Emergency and Blitz
• Episode 95: Clann na Poblachta and post-war Ireland
• Episode 96: The 1950s and the change of generations
• Episode 97: All change, all change
• Episode 98: Troubles
• Episode 99: The tide turns, slowly
• Episode 100: The Republic to the millennium
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• Publisher’s Note
• Selected Bibliography
• Copyright
• About the Author
• About Gill Books