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A short history of Ireland, 1500-2000
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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| Format : | Book |
| Language : | anglais |
| Title statement : | A short history of Ireland, 1500-2000 / John Gibney |
| Published : |
New Haven :
Yale University Press
, C 2017 |
| Physical Description : | 1 volume (xiv, 281 pages) |
| Subjects : |
- P. 1
- Introduction : Ireland on the edge
- Part I. The sixteenth century
- P. 11
- 1. New faith, new kingdom
- P. 23
- 2. Elizabethan Ireland
- P. 35
- 3. Tyrone's rebellion : the Nine Years War
- P. 44
- Where historians disagree
- Part II. The seventeenth century
- P. 49
- 4. Plantation
- P. 63
- 5. The wars of the three kingdoms
- P. 69
- 6. The Cromwellian conquest and the restoration
- P. 78
- 7. Two kings
- P. 85
- Where historians disagree
- Part III. The eighteenth centur
- P. 89
- 8. Ascendancy
- P. 99
- 9. Hidden Irelands
- P. 106
- 10. Patriots
- P. 115
- 11. The French disease and the Union
- P. 124
- Where historians disagree
- Part IV. The nineteenth century
- P. 131
- 12. The age of O'Connell
- P. 142
- 13. Famine and diaspora
- P. 152
- 14. New departures
- P. 168
- 15. Culture wars
- P. 180
- Where historians disagree
- Part V. The twentieth century
- P. 187
- 16. Revolution
- P. 203
- 17. Two Irelands
- P. 218
- 18. The second republic
- P. 226
- 19. Between Boston and Berlin
- P. 240
- Where historians disagree : an epilogue