A Brief History of Ireland

Released on by Richard Killeen
preview-18

  • A Brief History of Ireland Book Detail

  • Author : Richard Killeen
  • Release Date : 2012-01-19
  • Publisher : Robinson
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 364
  • ISBN 13 : 1780330731
  • File Size : 98,98 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

A Brief History of Ireland by Richard Killeen PDF Summary

Book Description: From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for liberty. A Brief History of Ireland is the perfect introduction to this exceptional place, its people and its culture. Ireland has been home to successive groups of settlers - Celts, Vikings, Normans, Anglo-Scots, Huguenots. It has imported huge ideas, none bigger than Christianity which it then re-exported to Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the Tudor era it became the first colony of the developing English Empire. Its fraught and sometimes brutal relationship with England has dominated its modern history. Killeen argues that religion was decisive in all this: Ireland remained substantially Catholic, setting it at odds with the larger island culturally, religiously and politically. But its own culture and identity have stayed strong, most obviously in literature with a magnificent tradition of writing from the Book of Kells to the modern masters: Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and Heaney.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own A Brief History of Ireland books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

A Brief History of Ireland

A Brief History of Ireland

File Size : 70,70 MB
Total View : 5964 Views
DOWNLOAD

From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. Ireland has been shaped by many things over the ce

The Wearing of the Green

The Wearing of the Green

File Size : 8,8 MB
Total View : 9954 Views
DOWNLOAD

The full history of St. Patrick's day is captured here for the first time in The Wearing of the Green. Illustrated with photos, the book spans the medieval orig

The Concise History of Ireland

The Concise History of Ireland

File Size : 26,26 MB
Total View : 9326 Views
DOWNLOAD

Appealing to the specialist and general reader alike, this handsomely presented book tells the story of Ireland from earliest times to the present, using a comb