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Index
Title Page Copyright Page CONTENTS Preface A Note on Geography and Climate list of Illustrations Chapter 1 Irish history—Introduction and overview
Why Irish history? Why a new history of Ireland? Irish historiography Value of understanding earlier periods Responses open to Ireland throughout history—resistance versus accommodation—and the role of history and literature in influencing those choices
Chapter 2 Prehistoric Ireland
Who are the Irish? Settled agriculture versus hunting and gathering Ritual sites and prehistoric religion Connections between the peoples of Ireland and the rest of the Isles Archeology—ring-forts Earliest literary sources Assessment of prehistoric culture and society Legacy of prehistoric Ireland
Chapter 3 Irish Christianity and early medieval Ireland
Political context for early medieval Ireland Social context for early medieval Ireland The first Christian missions Irish missions Distinctive features of Irish Christianity Christianity and culture The Synod of Whitby and the decline of Irish Christianity Did the Irish save civilization?
Chapter 4 The impact of the Vikings and the Norman conquest
Government, law, and social order before the Vikings Viking invasions and Scandinavian expansion Trade and assimilation Irish responses The Norman invasions of England and Ireland Irish kingship and the response to the Anglo-Normans The Irish church and the Normans
Chapter 5 Ireland in the high and late middle ages, ca. 1172–ca. 1485
The beginnings of Irish nationalism? Medieval Irish literature The impact of the Anglo-Normans The influence of the Church Irish society in the high and late middle ages Connections to and comparisons with the rest of the Isles The extent of English colonialism before the Reformation
Chapter 6 Ireland and the Reformation
Divisions within Irish society Political divisions Tudor policy toward Ireland under Henry VII and Henry VIII The position of Ireland in relation to England, Scotland, and Wales The impact of the Reformation Tudor policy toward Ireland under Elizabeth I English colonization The end of medieval Ireland
Chapter 7 Seventeenth-century Ireland
Ireland under James I The Irish rebellion of 1641 The “three kingdoms approach”: Ireland and the British Civil Wars Cromwell and Ireland Divisions within Ireland The aftermath of the civil wars The impact of the revolution of 1688 and the Battle of the Boyne
Chapter 8 Eighteenth-century Ireland
New cultural forces at work New social forces at work The impact of the English Ascendancy Ireland’s participation in British trade and its position in the British Empire Ireland and the Jacobites Ireland and the American crisis Eighteenth-century literature The beginnings of social unrest
Chapter 9 The Rebellion of 1798 and the impact of the French Revolution
The impact of the French Revolution Ireland and The Rights of Man The United Irishmen North and South The Rebellion of 1798 Its meaning and significance in history The background to the Act of Union The Act of Union
Chapter 10 Union, the Famine, and the rise of Irish nationalism
Ireland under the Union during the Napoleonic wars Daniel O’Connell—the great Liberator Wellington and the repeal of the penal laws The background to the Famine The great Famine English responses Irish responses
Chapter 11 The Land War, Parnell, and Home Rule
Industrial expansion in Nineteenth-century Ireland Irish migration to America and overseas Irish rural society after the Famine The decline of the Protestant Ascendancy and the rise of the middle class Irish religious developments in the second half of the nineteenth century The Fenians, agricultural depression, and the Land War Parnell and Home Rule
Chapter 12 The Easter Uprising and the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921: Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century
The Home Rule issue at the beginning of the twentieth century The Liberals and Home Rule 1906–1914 Ireland and World War I The Easter Rising and the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 Ireland in the interwar years Relations between the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State Ireland during World War II
Chapter 13 The two Irelands in the post-war period
1949—The creation of the Republic of Ireland Comparison between the situation in Ireland and British problems in India and the Middle East Relations between the United Kingdom and the Irish Republic The legacy of Eamon de Valera The Irish Republic in the 1960s The North-South divide Cultural divisions within Northern Ireland
Chapter 14 The Troubles: Northern Ireland, 1969–2000
Northern Ireland and civil rights Britain intervenes The 1970s Margaret Thatcher and policy toward Northern Ireland Parallels with Scotland and Wales Sinn Féin and the IRA Northern Ireland in literature and film The peace movement
Chapter 15 The Republic of Ireland and the European Union, 1973–2000
General directions in Irish politics Relations with the United Kingdom during the Thatcher years Ireland, Britain, and the European Union Social change Environmental and health issues Irish literary, cultural, and musical trends
Chapter 16 Conclusion
Role of political and cultural nationalism in an age of globalization Northern Ireland: A lasting peace? Recent Irish cultural, literary, and musical trends Quality of life issues The legacy of the past The promise of the present and the hope for the future What Irish history can teach the rest of the world
Bibliography
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