A history of Ireland in 250 episodes

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Cover Title page Dedication Preface Chapter 1: The Irish landscape: the last Ice Age and after Chapter 2: Mesolithic Ireland Chapter 3: Neolithic Ireland: the first farmers Chapter 4: Neolithic megaliths Chapter 5: Copper, bronze and gold: 2000–1000 BC Chapter 6: Before the Celts Chapter 7: The coming of the Celts Chapter 8: Preparing for the Otherworld in pre-Christian Celtic Ireland Chapter 9: Kings and champions Chapter 10: Agricola plans to conquer Ireland Chapter 11: Patrick the Briton Chapter 12: The early Irish church Chapter 13: A land of many kings Chapter 14: Poets, judges, nobles, the free and the unfree Chapter 15: Homesteads and crannogs Chapter 16: Living off the land Chapter 17: Saints and scholars Chapter 18: ‘Not the work of men but of angels’ Chapter 19: St Columba, St Columbanus and the wandering Irish Chapter 20: The coming of the Vikings Chapter 21: The wars of the Gael and the Gall Chapter 22: Viking towns and cities Chapter 23: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf Chapter 24: ‘A trembling sod’ Chapter 25: The rape of Dervorgilla Chapter 26: ‘At Baginbun, Ireland was lost and won’ Chapter 27: Waterford and Dublin: a tale of two sieges Chapter 28: Henry II comes to Ireland Chapter 29: The lordship of Ireland Chapter 30: Conquests and a failed treaty Chapter 31: John, Lord of Ireland Chapter 32: ‘Dreading the fury of the king’ Chapter 33: The English colony Chapter 34: Feudal Ireland Chapter 35: ‘A great affliction befell the country’ Chapter 36: Edward Bruce ‘caused the whole of Ireland to tremble’ Chapter 37: ‘Famine filled the country’ Chapter 38: The Black Death Chapter 39: Gallowglasses Chapter 40: ‘More Irish than the Irish themselves’ Chapter 41: The Statute of Kilkenny Chapter 42: ‘Into the land of the savage Irish where King O’Neill reigned supreme’ Chapter 43: A Catalan pilgrim among the unconquered Irish Chapter 44: Richard II’s great expedition to Ireland Chapter 45: The Pale Chapter 46: Beyond the Pale Chapter 47: Garret Mór FitzGerald, the Great Earl of Kildare Chapter 48: The decline of the House of Kildare Chapter 49: The rebellion of Silken Thomas Chapter 50: The church in turmoil Chapter 51: ‘Sober ways, politic drifts, and amiable persuasions’ Chapter 52: Conn Bacach O’Neill visits London Chapter 53: Religious strife and plantation Chapter 54: Shane the Proud Chapter 55: The fall of Shane O’Neill Chapter 56: A failed plantation and a bloody feast in Belfast Chapter 57: An English queen, a Scottish lady and a dark daughter Chapter 58: ‘Warring against a she-tyrant’: holy war in Munster Chapter 59: The plantation of Munster Chapter 60: The wreck of the Armada Chapter 61: The last voyage of the Girona Chapter 62: The adventures of Captain Francisco de Cuellar Chapter 63: ‘The wild Irish are barbarous and most filthy in their diet’ Chapter 64: ‘A fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief’ Chapter 65: The capture of Red Hugh O’Donnell Chapter 66: The escape of Red Hugh O’Donnell Chapter 67: Granuaile: the pirate queen of Connacht Chapter 68: Granuaile and the Composition of Connacht Chapter 69: The Nine Years War begins Chapter 70: ‘Freeing the country from the rod of tyrannical evil’ Chapter 71: ‘The scurvy fort of Blackwater’ Chapter 72: ‘A quick end made of a slow proceeding’: the Earl of Essex’s failure Chapter 73: Mountjoy and Docwra Chapter 74: ‘We spare none of what quality or sex soever’ Chapter 75: The Battle of Christmas Eve Chapter 76: The Treaty of Mellifont Chapter 77: ‘Remember, remember, the Fifth of November’ Chapter 78: ‘I know that they wish to kill him by poison or by any possible means’ Chapter 79: The Flight of the Earls Chapter 80: ‘We would rather have chosen to die in our own country’ Chapter 81: ‘Bring in colonies of civil people of England and Scotland’ Chapter 82: A lucky escape, Scottish lairds and the division of Clandeboye Chapter 83: Planting Down and Antrim Chapter 84: The rebellion of Sir Cahir O’Doherty Chapter 85: The plantation of Ulster Chapter 86: ‘Make speed, get thee to Ulster’ Chapter 87: The Londonderry plantation Chapter 88: The luck of the draw Chapter 89: ‘The heretics intend to vomit out all their poison’ Chapter 90: Thomas Wentworth and the ‘Graces’ Chapter 91: The Eagle Wing and the Black Oath Chapter 92: Presbyterian anger, Catholic resentment Chapter 93: October 1641: the plot that failed Chapter 94: The 1641 massacres Chapter 95: The Confederation of Kilkenny Chapter 96: ‘Your word is Sancta Maria!’ Chapter 97: ‘The righteous judgment of God’ Chapter 98: The curse of Cromwell Chapter 99: ‘To Hell or Connacht’ Chapter 100: Priests and tories Chapter 101: Restoration Ireland Chapter 102: Ormond Chapter 103: Work, food and leisure Chapter 104: The Popish Plot Chapter 105: The trial of Oliver Plunkett Chapter 106: ‘Lilliburlero’ Chapter 107: Three kings and thirteen apprentice boys Chapter 108: ‘No surrender!’ Chapter 109: The Relief of Derry Chapter 110: Schomberg Chapter 111: The Battle of the Boyne Chapter 112: Galloping Hogan, Sarsfield and the walls of Limerick Chapter 113: Athlone and Aughrim: June–July 1691 Chapter 114: Limerick: a second siege and a treaty Chapter 115: The Wild Geese Chapter 116: The Penal Laws Chapter 117: ‘The minority prevailing over the majority’ Chapter 118: The Protestant Ascendancy Chapter 119: John Dunton eats and sleeps in Connemara Chapter 120: Wood’s Halfpence and the Drapier Chapter 121: A modest proposal Chapter 122: 1740: the year of the Great Frost Chapter 123: 1741: the ‘Year of the Slaughter’ Chapter 124: The first performance of Handel’s Messiah Chapter 125: The second city of the Empire Chapter 126: Dublin: poverty, crime and duels Chapter 127: ‘The Irish gentry are an expensive people’ Chapter 128: ‘A sort of despot’ Chapter 129: Hearts of Steel, Hearts of Oak Chapter 130: Clearing the land Chapter 131: The peasantry Chapter 132: ‘Superfine cloth, of home manufacture’ Chapter 133: Ulster’s domestic linen industry Chapter 134: Wash-mills, bleach-greens and beetling engines Chapter 135: ‘A vast number of people shipping off for Pennsylvania and Boston’ Chapter 136: The voyage of the Sally Chapter 137: The American Revolution and Ireland Chapter 138: ‘Free Trade—or Else!’ Chapter 139: The Dungannon Convention Chapter 140: ‘I am now to address a free people’ Chapter 141: The failure of reform Chapter 142: ‘Fourteenth July 1789; Sacred to Liberty’ Chapter 143: The United Irishmen Chapter 144: The Belfast Harp Festival of 1792 Chapter 145: At war with France Chapter 146: Earl Fitzwilliam’s failure Chapter 147: Peep o’ Day Boys and Defenders Chapter 148: ‘I will blow your soul to the low hills of Hell’ Chapter 149: ‘The French are in the bay’ Chapter 150: ‘Nothing but terror will keep them in order’ Chapter 151: ‘Croppies, lie down!’ Chapter 152: ‘Rouse, Hibernians, from your slumbers’ Chapter 153: The Boys of Wexford Chapter 154: The Battle of New Ross Chapter 155: The rebellion spreads north Chapter 156: Rebellion in County Antrim Chapter 157: Rebellion in County Down Chapter 158: Vinegar Hill Chapter 159: The Races of Castlebar Chapter 160: The Union proposed Chapter 161: ‘Jobbing with the most corrupt people under Heaven’ Chapter 162: The passing of the Act of Union Chapter 163: Robert Emmet Chapter 164: ‘Now is your time for liberty!’ Chapter 165: ‘Let no man write my epitaph’ Chapter 166: Caravats and Shanavests Chapter 167: Ribbonmen, Orangemen and Rockites Chapter 168: Emancipation refused Chapter 169: The Catholic Association Chapter 170: The ‘invasion’ of Ulster Chapter 171: The Clare Election Chapter 172: ‘Scum condensed of lrish bog!’ Chapter 173: A social laboratory Chapter 174: The Tithe War Chapter 175: ‘Property has its duties as well as its rights’ Chapter 176: The Repealer repulsed Chapter 177: Monster meetings Chapter 178: A Nation Once Again? Chapter 179: ‘The misery of Ireland descends to degrees unknown’ Chapter 180: ‘So much wretchedness’ Chapter 181: The census of 1841 Chapter 182: Phytophthora infestans Chapter 183: ‘Give us food, or we perish’ Chapter 184: The Famine in Skibbereen Chapter 185: Fever Chapter 186: Emigration Chapter 187: The Battle of Widow McCormack’s Cabbage Patch Chapter 188: The Fenian Brotherhood Chapter 189: ‘The green flag will be flying independently’ Chapter 190: ‘God Save Ireland!’ Chapter 191: The growth of Belfast Chapter 192: Party fights Chapter 193: ‘My mission is to pacify Ireland’ Chapter 194: ‘Keep a firm grip of your homesteads’ Chapter 195: The Land War Chapter 196: The relief of Captain Boycott Chapter 197: Assassination in the Phoenix Park Chapter 198: The First Home Rule Bill Chapter 199: ‘Is them ’uns bate?’ Chapter 200: The Belfast riots of 1886 Chapter 201: Belfast: an imperial city Chapter 202: Committee Room 15 Chapter 203: ‘Keep our noble kingdom whole’ Chapter 204: The Second Home Rule Bill Chapter 205: ‘The country is bleeding to death’ Chapter 206: Killing Home Rule with kindness Chapter 207: ‘De-anglicising the Irish people’ Chapter 208: Two nations? Chapter 209: Cultural revival Chapter 210: Home Rule promised Chapter 211: The Covenant Chapter 212: The great Dublin lock-out Chapter 213: The Curragh ‘mutiny’ Chapter 214: To the brink of civil war Chapter 215: ‘Faithful to Erin, we answer her call!’ Chapter 216: The conspirators prepare Chapter 217: ‘We’re going to be slaughtered’ Chapter 218: Easter Week Chapter 219: Executions and internment Chapter 220: Sacrifice at the Somme Chapter 221: The rise of Sinn Féin Chapter 222: The First Dáil Chapter 223: Return to violence Chapter 224: Terror and reprisal Chapter 225: ‘The dreary steeples’ Chapter 226: Partition Chapter 227: ‘Stretch out the hand of forbearance’ Chapter 228: The Treaty Chapter 229: The split Chapter 230: Troubles north and south Chapter 231: Civil war Chapter 232: Green against Green Chapter 233: Divided Ulster Chapter 234: ‘Not an inch!’ Chapter 235: Northern Ireland: depression years Chapter 236: ‘An empty political formula’ Chapter 237: The Economic War Chapter 238: Democracy in peril Chapter 239: ‘Forget the unhappy past’ Chapter 240: ‘Crying for a happier life’ Chapter 241: The Emergency Chapter 242: The blitz and after Chapter 243: The inter-party government Chapter 244: The Mother and Child crisis Chapter 245: ‘What we have we hold’ Chapter 246: The vanishing Irish Chapter 247: The years of stagnation Chapter 248: Church and state and the IRA Chapter 249: New brooms north and south Chapter 250: The O’Neill–Lemass meeting, 14 January 1965 Epilogue References Bibliography Copyright About the Author About Gill & Macmillan