Eyewitness to Irish HistoryThrough sources ranging from ancient forsundun (praise songs) and the hero kings to newspaper accounts, public decrees, and even graffiti, this book offers vivid portraits of major events and everyday life in Ireland through the centuries—beginning with Golamh, the legendary leader of the band of Iberian Celts who settled the island more than three thousand years ago, and concluding with gripping accounts by those on both sides of the bloody civil conflict in Northern Ireland. |
Contents
Introduction | |
Ancient Ireland | |
Early Christian Ireland | |
The Viking Terror | |
Ireland and the Angevin Empire | |
Irish Princes and Norman Lords | |
The Tudor Conquests | |
The Cromwellian Conquest | |
The Williamite Conquest | |
The Penal Laws | |
The Insurrection of 1798 | |
Union 1801 Insurrection 1803 Catholic Emancipation 1829 | |
Repeal Starvation and the Insurrection of 1848 | |
The War of Independence 19191921 | |
The Civil War 19221923 and the Aftermath | |
The Flight of the Princes | |
Obedience to the English Empire | |
The Insurrection of 1641 | |
Irish Neutrality and the Irish Republic of 1949 | |
A Protestant State and Civil Rights | |
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