The General History of Ireland ...
Author | : Geoffrey Keating |
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Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1723 |
Genre | : Ireland |
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Author | : Geoffrey Keating |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1723 |
Genre | : Ireland |
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Author | : Geoffrey Keating |
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Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Celts |
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Author | : Richard Killeen |
Publisher | : Robinson |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2012-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780330731 |
From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for liberty. A Brief History of Ireland is the perfect introduction to this exceptional place, its people and its culture. Ireland has been home to successive groups of settlers - Celts, Vikings, Normans, Anglo-Scots, Huguenots. It has imported huge ideas, none bigger than Christianity which it then re-exported to Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the Tudor era it became the first colony of the developing English Empire. Its fraught and sometimes brutal relationship with England has dominated its modern history. Killeen argues that religion was decisive in all this: Ireland remained substantially Catholic, setting it at odds with the larger island culturally, religiously and politically. But its own culture and identity have stayed strong, most obviously in literature with a magnificent tradition of writing from the Book of Kells to the modern masters: Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and Heaney.
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1878 |
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Author | : Thomas Bartlett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1997-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521629898 |
This is a major, collaborative study of organised military activity and its broad impact on Ireland over the last thousand years or so, from the middle of the first millennium AD to modern times. It integrates the best recent scholarship in military history into its social and political context to provide a comprehensive treatment of the Irish military experience. The eighteen chronologically-organised chapters are written by leading scholars each of whom is an authority on the period in question. Drawing the whole work together is a wide-ranging introductory essay on the 'Irish military tradition' which explores the relationship of Irish society and politics with militarism and military affairs. The text is illustrated throughout by over 120 pictures and maps.
Author | : Mike Cronin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2004-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113424231X |
The full history of St. Patrick's day is captured here for the first time in The Wearing of the Green. Illustrated with photos, the book spans the medieval origins, steeped in folklore and myth, through its turbulent and troubled times when it acted as fuel for fierce political argument, and tells the fascinating story of how the celebration of 17th March was transformed from a stuffy dinner for Ireland's elite to one of the world's most public festivals. Looking at more general Irish traditions and Irish communities throughout the world, Mike Cronin and Daryl Adair follow the history of this widely celebrated event, examining how the day has been exploited both politically and commercially, and they explore the shared heritage of the Irish through the development of this unique patriotic holiday. Highly informative for students of history, cultural studies and sociology, and an absolute delight for anyone interested in the fascinating and unique culture of Ireland.
Author | : Geoffrey Keating |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1809 |
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Author | : Brendan Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2018-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108625258 |
The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in The Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. The contributors are leading experts in their fields, and present their original interpretations in a fresh and accessible manner. New perspectives are offered on the politics, artistic culture, religious beliefs and practices, social organisation and economic activity that prevailed on the island in these centuries. At each turn the question is asked: to what extent were these developments unique to Ireland? The openness of Ireland to outside influences, and its capacity to influence the world beyond its shores, are recurring themes. Underpinning the book is a comparative, outward-looking approach that sees Ireland as an integral but exceptional component of medieval Christian Europe.
Author | : Geoffrey Keating |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : Ireland |
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Author | : Peter Neville |
Publisher | : Cassell |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Historic sites |
ISBN | : 9780304362431 |
'This book will be appreciated by visitors who want more historical background than ordinary series guidebooks supply...Highly recommended...' LIBRARY JOURNAL 'For independent, inquisitive travellers traversing the green roads of Ireland, there is no better guide than A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF IRELAND.' SMALL PRESS Constantly in the news, there are few countries where the background history is so vital to an understanding of its people and culture. A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF IRELAND not only offers the reader a chronological outline of the nation's development right up to the present day but also provides an invaluable introduction to this land of poets, saints, eloquent politicians, illustrious soldiers and inspiring rebels. Political, social and industrial history and economics are also well covered. The book includes a comprehensive description of modern Ireland, both North and South, and of its two separate Catholic Nationalist and Protestant Unionist traditions. There is a Historical Gazetteer cross referenced to the main text and particular attention is paid to the classic historical sites, which feature on any visitor's itinerary.