A short history of Ireland, 1500-2000 / John Gibney.
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continu...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Ireland on the edge
- Part I. The sixteenth century
- 1. New faith, new kingdom
- 2. Elizabethan Ireland
- 3. Tyrone's rebellion: the Nine Years War
- Where historians disagree
- Part II. The seventeenth century
- 4. Plantation
- 5. The wars of the three kingdoms
- 6. The Cromwellian conquest and the restoration
- 7. Two kings
- Where historians disagree
- Part III. The eighteenth century
- 8. Ascendancy
- 9. Hidden Irelands
- 10. Patriots
- 11. The French disease and the Union
- Where historians disagree
- Part IV. The nineteenth century
- 12. The age of O'Connell
- 13. Famine and diaspora
- 14. New departures
- 15. Culture wars
- Where historians disagree
- Part V. The twentieth century
- 16. Revolution
- 17. Two Irelands
- 18. The second republic
- 19. Between Boston and Berlin
- Where historians disagree: an epilogue.