Irish History: People, places and events that built Ireland
From mesolithic Ireland to the peace process, this little book covers all of the main historical and cultural events, places and figures in Irish history. A must for all lovers of Ireland and the Irish. An excellent, concise guide to how Ireland has come to be what it is today. Some key events, people, topics and places include: • Monastic Ireland, Vikings and Normans• The Irish language, the Book of Kells• Patrick, Colm Cille, Brian Boru, Granuaile (Grace O’Malley)• Colonial Ireland, Emigration• Rebellion, Famine and Partition• The Troubles, Good Friday Agreement and Brexit A helpful index is found at the back of the book. Beautifully produced, Collins Little Book of Irish History is a treasure in itself and makes a perfect gift for any Ireland enthusiast.
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Author: Neil Hegarty
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Contents
Copyright
Introduction
Irish History
Mesolithic Ireland
The Céide Fields
Newgrange
History and Myth: Cúchulainn
The Celts
Dún Aonghasa
The Broighter Hoard
Hibernia and Rome
Before Christianity
Palladius: the ‘first Patrick’
Patrick: myth and reality
Pilgrimage
‘Saints and Scholars’
Glendalough
Dál Riata
Colm Cille
Columbanus in Europe
The Irish language
Skellig Michael
Illumination
‘Heathen men’
The Viking presence
Dublin
Brian Boru
Laudabiliter
Invasion
Giraldus Cambrensis
A royal visit
Dublin Castle
The Lordship of Ireland
The ‘Remonstrance of the Princes’
The Bruce Invasion
The Statutes of Kilkenny
Reconquest
Surrender and Regrant
‘Great Terror’
Granuaile
Trinity College Dublin
Kinsale
The Flight of the Earls
The Wild Geese
The Plantation of Ulster
The Walls of Derry
1641
Cromwell
A ‘deluded and seduced people’
The Act of Settlement
The Big House
The Siege of Derry
The Battle of the Boyne
The Penal Laws
Marsh’s Library
The Royal Hospital
Georgian Dublin
Swift
The Irish Parliament
Irish Presbyterianism in America
The United Irishmen
1798
The Act of Union
Maria Edgeworth
Wellington
Moore’s Melodies
Irish Lights
Emancipation
O’Connell and Repeal
The Great Hunger
The Famine and the Future
The Irish Diaspora
The Fenians
The Church Ascendant
The ‘Irish Question’
The Revival
The Gaelic Athletic Association
The Abbey Theatre
Yeats and Joyce
Industrial Ulster
Titanic
The Ulster Covenant
A World at War
The Easter Rising
Collins and de Valera
The War of Independence
The first ‘Bloody Sunday’
The Treaty
Constance Markievicz
Civil War
The Irish Border
In Northern Ireland
In the Free State
De Valera’s Ireland
The Jews of Ireland
The Treaty Ports
The ‘Emergency’
Northern Ireland at War
Elizabeth Bowen
The ‘Mother and Child’ Scheme
The Islands of Ireland
Edna O’Brien
The Road to the Troubles
The Troubles
The Second ‘Bloody Sunday’
In Europe
The Presidents of Ireland
Corncrake
Catholicism and Ireland
The ‘X Case’
Church scandals
Incarceration
The Good Friday Agreement
Imperfect peace
Two Nobels
A Tiger and a Bail-Out
Two Referendums
Brexit and the future
Index
Photo credits
About the author
About the Publisher
From the very beginnings of its history, the island of Ireland has been open to the influence of the surrounding world. The seas that separate Ireland from its European neighbours might seem, on the face of it, to act as barriers, dividing the inhabitants of Ireland from international affairs. In fact, the opposite has always been the case, for the seas have acted as highways, bringing foreign influences, goods and traffic, travellers, wanderers, and invaders to Irish shores.
