| Description |
400 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ireland Before Patrick -- Peig Sayers: A Modern Look at an Ancient World -- Cuchulainn, Fionn mac Cumaill, and Deirdre -- The Land of Saints and Scholars -- Patrick: From Slave Boy to Patron Saint -- Brigid: "The Mary of the Gael" -- Columcille: The Dove of the Church -- The Viking Invasion and the High Kings of Ireland -- The Vikings and Brian Boru -- High Kings and High Villains--Turlough O'Connor, Rory O'Connor, and Dermot MacMurrough -- The Norman Invasion to Henry VIII: 1169-1537 -- "Strongbow"--Richard de Clare -- The Earls of Kildare--Gerrold Mor, Gerrold Og, and Silken Thomas -- The Tudor Conquest and the Fall of the Gaelic World -- Hugh O'Neill, the Battle of Kinsale, and the Escape of the Earls -- Grace O'Malley--Granuaile -- The Seventeenth Century: Destruction, Chaos, and Loss -- Rory O'More and Owen Roe O'Neill -- A Short Biography of an Odious Gatecrasher of Irish History -- Patrick Sarsfield, the Wild Geese, and the Penal Laws -- Oliver Plunkett -- The Great Patriots -- Wolfe Tone -- Robert Emmet -- Daniel O'Connell -- Ireland after the Great Hunger -- Charles Stewart Parnell: The Uncrowned King of Ireland -- Michael Davitt -- Douglas Hyde -- A Terrible Beauty is Born: Proclaiming the Republic -- Maud Gonne -- Padraig Pearse -- James Connolly -- A Century of Irish Voices -- William Butler Yeats -- James Joyce -- Samuel Beckett -- Birth Pangs of a New Nation -- Michael Collins -- Eamon de Valera -- Ireland in the Modern World -- Jack Lynch -- Conor Cruise O'Brien -- F.H. Boland -- People of Passion. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Ireland -- History.
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| Added Title |
History of Ireland |
| ISBN |
0762419652 |
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