


Hardcover
Published: 1st May 2005
ISBN: 9780415339520
Number Of Pages: 299
Combining over 100 beautifully crafted maps, charts and graphs with a narrative packed with facts and information, An Atlas of Irish History provides coverage of the main political, military, economic, religious and social changes that have occurred in Ireland and among the Irish abroad over the past two millennia.
Ruth Dudley Edwards and Bridget Hourican use the combination of thematic narrative and visual aids to examine and illustrate issues such as:
This third edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to include coverage of the many changes that have occurred in Ireland and among its people overseas. Taking into consideration the main issues that have developed since 1981, and adding a number of new maps and graphs, this new edition also includes an informative and detailed section on the troubles that have been a feature of Irish life since 1969.
An Atlas of Irish History is an invaluable resource for students of Irish history and politics and the general reader alike.
'The sheer wealth of information assembled here makes this a priceless aid for anyone interested in Irish history.' - History Today
Foreword | p. ix |
Note on second edition | p. xi |
Note on third edition | p. xii |
Reference | p. 1 |
Political geography of Ireland | p. 1 |
Ulster | p. 4 |
Munster | p. 4 |
Leinster | p. 4 |
Connacht | p. 7 |
Physical features of Ireland | p. 8 |
Cartography | p. 11 |
Ireland and its cartographers | p. 14 |
Military developments | p. 16 |
Strategic considerations | p. 19 |
Battle sites | p. 20 |
Continental interventions | p. 27 |
The Viking invasions | p. 30 |
The Norman invasion | p. 32 |
Norman consolidation | p. 35 |
The Bruce invasion | p. 38 |
The Nine Years War | p. 41 |
The 1640s: the Confederation and Cromwell | p. 43 |
Stuart and Orange | p. 47 |
The Irish militia | p. 49 |
The 1798 rising | p. 52 |
The 1916 rising | p. 54 |
The War of Independence (Anglo-Irish War) | p. 58 |
The Civil War | p. 60 |
Ireland and the Second World War | p. 62 |
Paramilitary activity: 1926-2004 | p. 64 |
Politics | p. 71 |
Ireland before the Normans | p. 72 |
Fourteenth-century Ireland | p. 76 |
The great families of Ireland | p. 76 |
The Pale: 1300-1596 | p. 80 |
The development of the Irish parliament | p. 82 |
The Irish parliament: 1613-1800 | p. 84 |
O'Connell and Young Ireland | p. 87 |
Irish representation at Westminster: 1800-1918 | p. 90 |
Labour in Ireland: 1907-23 | p. 93 |
Political affiliations in Dail Eireann: 1918-2002 | p. 95 |
Government in Ireland | p. 101 |
Religion | p. 105 |
The coming of Christianity | p. 107 |
Medieval ecclesiastical Ireland | p. 109 |
Post-Reformation Ireland | p. 111 |
The dissolution of the monasteries | p. 113 |
Dissenters in Ireland | p. 115 |
Religious affiliations | p. 118 |
Catholicism in crisis | p. 120 |
The Irish abroad | p. 124 |
Fourth-century expansion | p. 126 |
Irish influence abroad: 500-800 | p. 126 |
Irish colleges in Europe | p. 129 |
Destinations of the emigrants | p. 131 |
Irish Catholicism abroad | p. 134 |
The Irish in Britain | p. 137 |
The Irish in the Empire: soldiers and administrators | p. 141 |
The Irish in America | p. 143 |
America and Irish politics | p. 146 |
International relations | p. 149 |
Ireland and the European Union | p. 151 |
Land | p. 155 |
Tudor plantations | p. 156 |
Plantations of James I | p. 158 |
Cromwellian land confiscations | p. 161 |
The transfer of land ownership: 1603-1778 | p. 163 |
Pre-Famine agriculture | p. 164 |
The transfer of land ownership: 1870-1916 | p. 168 |
Agriculture in the twentieth century | p. 170 |
Infrastructure | p. 174 |
Early infrastructure | p. 175 |
Infrastructure in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries | p. 177 |
Modern transport | p. 179 |
Telecommunications | p. 182 |
The economy | p. 184 |
Medieval trade | p. 187 |
Tudor trade | p. 189 |
Seventeenth-century trade | p. 192 |
Eighteenth-century trade | p. 195 |
Pre-Famine trade | p. 197 |
Pre-Famine industry | p. 199 |
Trade and industry in independent Ireland: 1920-90 | p. 201 |
The Celtic Tiger | p. 204 |
Social change | p. 208 |
Urbanization | p. 210 |
Towns: 1841-2002 | p. 212 |
Population changes: 1841-51 | p. 214 |
Population changes: 1841-2002 | p. 216 |
Emigration: 1881-2002 | p. 218 |
Education: 1800-2004 | p. 218 |
Irish-speakers: 1851-2004 | p. 225 |
The status of women: 1841-2004 | p. 227 |
Secularization of Irish society: 1960-2000 | p. 230 |
Immigration: 1921-2004 | p. 231 |
Sport | p. 234 |
Northern Ireland | p. 240 |
Religious divisions | p. 242 |
Government: 1921-69 | p. 247 |
Searching for peace | p. 250 |
Killings: 1969-2005 | p. 254 |
Literature | p. 269 |
Modern Irish literature | p. 269 |
Select bibliography | p. 276 |
Index | p. 287 |
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ISBN: 9780415339520
ISBN-10: 0415339529
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 299
Published: 1st May 2005
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.77 x 16.92
x 2.24
Weight (kg): 0.61
Edition Number: 3
Edition Type: New edition