Table of Contents

1: Donnchadh O Corrain: Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland
2: Katharine Simms: The Norman Invasion and the Gaelic Recovery
3: Nicholas Canny: Early Modern Ireland, c. 1500-1700
4: R. F. Foster: Ascendancy and Union
5: David Fitzpatrick: Ireland Since 1870
6: Declan Kiberd: Irish Literature and Irish History
Further Reading
Chronology
Index

About the Author

R. F. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Hertford College. His previous books include Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and his Family (1976), Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life (1981), Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (1988), and W. B. Yeats: Volume I (1997). He is currently working on volume II of the authorized biography of W. B. Yeats, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition `Both the findings and the angles of attack on Irish political history are truly up to date.''
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