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Ireland: A Concise History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day

By Paul Johnson

Book information

Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9781613732526, 0897331230
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2240830 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-11-02 02:41:28
History; Nonfiction; HIS018000

Description

Drawing from a wealth of historical and scholarly sources, Johnson traces the important social, religious and political development of Ireland's struggle to become a unified, settled country. Johnson describes with accurate detail Ireland's barbarous beginnings, Oliver Cromwell's religious "crusade," the tragic Irish potato famine, the Ulster resistance and the outstanding fact of the constant British-Irish connection and the fearful toll of life it exacted. Among the anonymous multitude are famous names such as "Silken Thom" Kildare, Thomas Wentworth, Archbishop Plunkett and Lord Frederick Cavendish. And yet many great men marshaled their energies and wits to settle Ireland: Sir Henry Sidney, Sire Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, Churchill and others.

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