Irish History: People, Places and Events that Built Ireland

Editor/Author Hegarty, Neil
Publication Year: 2020
Publisher: Collins

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-0-00-834013-1
Category: History - Great Britain -- History
Image Count: 115
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

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.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • About the author
  • Mesolithic Ireland
  • The Céide Fields
  • Newgrange
  • History and Myth: Cùchulainn
  • The Celts
  • Dùn Aonghasa
  • The Broighter Hoard
  • Palladius: the ‘first Patrick’
  • Patrick: myth and reality
  • Pilgrimage
  • ‘Saints and Scholars’
  • Glendalough
  • Dal Riata
  • Colm Cille
  • Columbanus in Europe
  • The Irish language
  • Skellig Michael
  • The Viking presence
  • Dublin
  • Brian Boru
  • Laudabiliter
  • Invasion
  • Giraldus Cambrensis
  • A royal visit
  • Dublin Castle
  • The Bruce Invasion
  • The Statutes of Kilkenny
  • Reconquest
  • Surrender and Regrant
  • 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
  • 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 Treaty
  • Constance Markievicz
  • Civil War
  • In the Free State
  • De Valera's Ireland
  • The Jews of Ireland
  • 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'
  • Corncrake
  • Catholicism and Ireland
  • Incarceration
  • The Good Friday Agreement
  • Imperfect peace
  • Two Nobels
  • A Tiger and a Bail-Out
  • Two Referendums
  • Brexit and the future
  • Image credits