The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923

Informationen zum Autor Professor J. C. Beckett was born and educated in Belfast where he became a lecturer in Modern History at Queen's University; and in 1958 Professor of Irish History there. After his retirement from the chair in 1975 Professor Beckett spent 1976 as Cummings Lecturer at McGill University, Montreal and was visiting Professor at the Univeristy of Tulane, New Orleans in 1977. In 1980 he was awarded an honorary D. Litt. by Queen's University, Belfast. Professor Beckett died in 1996. Klappentext Presents the modern study of Irish history. Zusammenfassung Beckett's The Making of Modern Ireland was a milestone in the modern study of Irish history. 'This excellent book supersedes all previous histories of modern Ireland... Quinn, Belfast Telegraph 'One of the most remarkable single-volume histories of modern Ireland.

Product details

• Authors: J C Beckett, J. C. Beckett, J.C. Beckett, BECKETT J C
• Assisted by: J. C. Beckett (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2008
• EAN: 9780571242689
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24268-9
• No. of pages: 520
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; European History, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Ireland, Faber Finds; Identity