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Authors: Ruth Dudley Edwards
ISBN-13: 9780415339520, ISBN-10: 0415339529
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: REV

Author Biography: Ruth Dudley Edwards

Book Synopsis

This third edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to include coverage of the many changes that have occurred in Ireland and among its people overseas. Taking into consideration the main issues that have developed since 1981, and adding a number of new maps and graphs, this new edition also includes an informative and detailed section on the troubles that have occurred from 1969 to the present day.

	Foreword	ix
	Note on second edition	xi
	Note on third edition	xii
I	Reference	1
1	Political geography of Ireland	1
2	Ulster	4
3	Munster	4
4	Leinster	4
5	Connacht	7
6	Physical features of Ireland	8
II	Cartography	11
7	Ireland and its cartographers	14
III	Military developments	16
8	Strategic considerations	19
9	Battle sites	20
10	Continental interventions	27
11	The Viking invasions	30
12	The Norman invasion	32
13	Norman consolidation	35
14	The Bruce invasion	38
15	The Nine Years War	41
16	The 1640s: the Confederation and Cromwell	43
17	Stuart and Orange	47
18	The Irish militia	49
19	The 1798 rising	52
20	The 1916 rising	54
21	The War of Independence (Anglo-Irish War)	58
22	The Civil War	60
23	Ireland and the Second World War	62
24	Paramilitary activity: 1926-2004	64
IV	Politics	71
25	Ireland before the Normans	72
26	Fourteenth-century Ireland	76
27	The great families of Ireland	76
28	The Pale: 1300-1596	80
29	The development of the Irish parliament	82
30	The Irish parliament: 1613-1800	84
31	O'Connell and Young Ireland	87
32	Irish representation at Westminster: 1800-1918	90
33	Labour in Ireland: 1907-23	93
34	Political affiliations in Dail Eireann: 1918-2002	95
35	Government in Ireland	101
V	Religion	105
36	The coming of Christianity	107
37	Medieval ecclesiastical Ireland	109
38	Post-Reformation Ireland	111
39	The dissolution of the monasteries	113
40	Dissenters in Ireland	115
41	Religious affiliations	118
42	Catholicism in crisis	120
VI	The Irish abroad	124
43	Fourth-century expansion	126
44	Irish influence abroad: 500-800	126
45	Irish colleges in Europe	129
46	Destinations of the emigrants	131
47	Irish Catholicism abroad	134
48	The Irish in Britain	137
49	The Irish in the Empire: soldiers and administrators	141
50	The Irish in America	143
51	America and Irish politics	146
52	International relations	149
53	Ireland and the European Union	151
VII	Land	155
54	Tudor plantations	156
55	Plantations of James I	158
56	Cormwellian land confiscations	161
57	The transfer of land ownership: 1603-1778	163
58	Pre-Famine agriculture	164
59	The transfer of land ownership: 1870-1916	168
60	Agriculture in the twentieth century	170
VIII	Infrastructure	174
61	Early infrastructure	175
62	Infrastructure in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	177
63	Modern transport	179
64	Telecommunications	182
IX	The economy	184
65	Medieval trade	187
66	Tudor trade	189
67	Seventeenth-century trade	192
68	Eighteenth-century trade	195
69	Pre-Famine trade	197
70	Pre-Famine industry	199
71	Trade and industry in independent Ireland: 1920-90	201
72	The Celtic Tiger	204
X	Social change	208
73	Urbanization	210
74	Towns: 1841-2002	212
75	Population changes: 1841-51	214
76	Population changes: 1841-2002	216
77	Emigration: 1881-2002	218
78	Education: 1800-2004	218
79	Irish-speakers: 1851-2004	225
80	The status of women: 1841-2004	227
81	Secularization of Irish society: 1960-2000	230
82	Immigration: 1921-2004	231
83	Sport	234
XI	Northern Ireland	240
84	Religious divisions	242
85	Government: 1921-69	247
86	Searching for peace	250
87	Killings: 1969-2005	254
XII	Literature	269
88	Modern Irish literature	269
	Select bibliography	276
	Index	287

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