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Zusatztext Review from previous edition `Both the findings and the angles of attack on Irish political history are truly up to date.' Informationen zum Autor R. F. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Hertford College. His previous books include Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and his Family (1976), Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life (1981), Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (1988), and W. B. Yeats: Volume I (1997). He is currently working on volume II of the authorized biography of W. B. Yeats, to be published by Oxford University Press. Klappentext Wide-ranging and challenging, this authoritative and balanced account of Irish history traces over two thousand years of turbulent change from the earliest prehistoric communities and Christian settlements to the present day. Religious confrontation and the emergence of the political issues at the root of the current `Troubles' are among the topics raised, while there is also a special section devoted to the island's language and literature. Zusammenfassung This work stresses the ancient, rooted nature of Irish culture, but also looks beyond received ideas of Irish history to explore the patterns of fragmentation and change which have been characteristic of Ireland's past. The text is supplemented with a chronology of Irish history, and maps. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.: Donnchadh O Corrain: Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland 2.: Katharine Simms: The Norman Invasion and the Gaelic Recovery 3.: Nicholas Canny: Early Modern Ireland, c. 1500-1700 4.: R. F. Foster: Ascendancy and Union 5.: David Fitzpatrick: Ireland Since 1870 6.: Declan Kiberd: Irish Literature and Irish History Further Reading Chronology Index
