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The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923
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'Technically this book is a masterly achievement: the collection, sorting, selecting and balancing of material has meant an immense amount of hard and highly skilful work. The presentation is not only learned but cool, objective, unimpassioned and yet almost always alive and compassionate as well . . . As a reference book alone it is immensely valuable . . . As an example of a humane, scholarly, expert history, Professor Beckett's book will be difficult to surpass.' D. B. Quinn,
Belfast Telegraph
'[He] has brilliantly succeeded. The book is admirably constructed and written with clarity and economy which carry the narrative unflaggingly through to the end . . . This excellent book supersedes all previous histories of modern Ireland.' F. S. L. Lyons,
New Statesman
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- I: Pacata Hibernia
- II: Ireland in the Early Seventeenth Century
- III: Protestant and Recusant: The Constitutional Struggle, 1603–1641
- IV: The War of the Three Kingdoms
- V: Confiscation and Settlement
- VI: Restoration Ireland
- VII: ‘The Glorious Memory’
- VIII: The Emergence of the Protestant Nation
- IX: The Economic and Social Basis of the Protestant Ascendancy
- X: The Rise of the Patriots
- XI: The Winning of a Constitution
- XII: ‘Grattan’s Parliament’
- XIII: The Impact of Revolution
- XIV: The End of the Irish Parliament
- XV: From the Union to Catholic Emancipation
- XVI: O’Connell and the Policy of Repeal
- XVII: The Great Famine
- XVIII: Land and Politics, 1850–1870
- XIX: The Beginnings of the Home Rule Movement
- XX: ‘The Uncrowned King’
- XXI: The Policy of Conciliation, 1891–1905
- XXII: The Home Rule Crisis, 1906–14
- XXIII: The Revolution in Ireland, 1914–23
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Maps
- About the Author
- Copyright