By Emily Lawless. Here is the story of the nation of Ireland, written in the days before the poison of political correctness destroyed simple factual accounts of the history of our people.
A broad history of the island from its ancient legends and early kingdoms to the political struggles of the nineteenth century. Lawless follows the changing fortunes of the Irish people across centuries of invasion, conquest, rebellion, and social upheaval, placing the country’s story within the wider history of Britain and Europe.
The narrative begins with early Gaelic Ireland, the arrival of Christianity, and the age of saints and scholars. It then turns to the Viking settlements, the Norman invasion, and the gradual extension of English authority, introducing the chieftains, kings, soldiers, and statesmen whose ambitions repeatedly altered the political landscape.
Lawless examines the Tudor and Stuart conquests, the plantations, the wars of the seventeenth century, and the long conflict over land, religion, and government. The rebellion of 1798, the Act of Union, the Great Famine, and the growth of nineteenth-century nationalism are presented as parts of a continuous struggle over Ireland’s identity and future.
A beautiful reproduction of an amazing book written in 1891. More than 75 original illustrations meticulously recreated from the original.
Covers Irish history from the primeval period to about 1870. Early migrations, the ice age, flora and fauna, first inhabitants, Formorians, Firbolgs, Moytura Cong, Tuatha-da-Danaans, the Scoto-Keltic invasion, credibility of the Annals, Irish legends, pre-Christian Ireland, St. Patrick, monasteries, Vikings, Columbia, Iona, Brian becomes king, Strongbow, Anglo-Normans, Henry II, civil war, King Meath, Ulster, Palatine lords, Edward the Bruce in Ireland, King Richard, the Kildares, King John, Kilkenny Statute, plantations, Shane O’Neill, Desmond, Carew, Perrot, Desmond, Yellow Ford, Essex, Tyrone, Strafford, civil war again, Cromwell, Act of Settlement, oppression, William, James, Limerick, Flood, Grattan, Irish volunteers, oak boys, steel boys, Wolfe Tone, Fitzwilliam, Union, Catholic Emancipation, “Young Ireland,” Famine, struggles, more.
