The Course of Irish History
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The Course of Irish History

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About this book

First published over forty years ago and now updated to cover the "Celtic Tiger" economic boom of the 2000s and subsequent worldwide recession, this new edition of a perennial bestseller interprets Irish history as a whole. Designed and written to be popular and authoritative, critical and balanced, it has been a core text in both Irish and American universities for decades. It has also proven to be an extremely popular book for casual readers with an interest in history and Irish affairs. Considered the definitive history among the Irish themselves, it is an essential text for anyone interested in the history of Ireland.

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Yes, you can access The Course of Irish History by Patrick Kiely, T. W. Moody,F. X. Martin,Dermot Keogh in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Historia & Historia irlandesa. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781493083435
Edition
5

Table of contents

  1. Contributors
  2. Preface
  3. 1 A Geographer’s View of Irish History
  4. 2 Prehistoric Ireland
  5. 3 Early Irish Society: 1st–9th century
  6. 4 The Beginnings of Christianity: 5th and 6th centuries
  7. 5 The Golden Age of Early Christian Ireland: 7th and 8th centuries
  8. 6 The Age of the Viking Wars: 9th and 10th centuries
  9. 7 Ireland in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: c. 1000–1169
  10. 8 The Normans – Arrival and Settlement: 1169–c. 1300
  11. 9 The Medieval English Colony: 13th and 14th centuries
  12. 10 The Gaelic Resurgence and the Geraldine Supremacy: c. 1400–1534
  13. 11 The Tudor Conquest: 1534–1603
  14. 12 The Colonisation of Ulster and the Rebellion of 1641: 1603–60
  15. 13 The Restoration and the Jacobite War: 1660–91
  16. 14 The Age of the Penal Laws: 1691–1778
  17. 15 The Protestant Nation: 1775–1800
  18. 16 The Age of Daniel O’Connell: 1800–47
  19. 17 The Great Famine: 1845–50
  20. 18 Fenianism, Home Rule and the Land War: 1850–91
  21. 19 From Parnell to Pearse: 1891–1921
  22. 20 Northern Ireland: 1921–66
  23. 21 The Irish Free State and the Republic of Ireland: 1921–66
  24. 22 Ireland: 1966–82
  25. 23 Ireland: 1982–94
  26. 24 Ireland at the Turn of the Century: 1994–2001
  27. 25 Turning Corners: Ireland 2002–11
  28. Notes
  29. A Chronology of Irish History
  30. A Bibliography of Irish History