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Author:

English, Richard, 1963-

Title:

Irish freedom : the history of nationalism in Ireland / Richard English.

Publisher:

Pan Books,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xii, 625 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Nationalism--Ireland--History.
Ireland--Politics and government.
Ireland--History.

Notes:

Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2006. "Winner of the Ewart-Biggs memorial prize 2007"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 569-611) and index.

Contents:

1: Ireland before 1800 --'A wild and inhospitable people'?-1700 Ireland -- 'Rational ideas of liberty and equality': the eighteenth century -- 2: The nineteenth -century drama -- Catholic reform and cultural nationalism, 1800-1850 -- Fenians and parliamentary nationalism, 1850-1900 -- 3: The long twentieth century -- World wars and revolutions, 1900-1945 -- Cold wars and revolutionaries, 1945-2005 -- 4: Conclusion -- Explaining Irish nationalism.

Summary:

Richard English's brilliant new book is a compelling and vividly readable history of Irish nationalism, taking the reader from the Ulster Plantation to Home Rule, from the Famine of 1847 to the Hunger Strikes of the 1970s, from Parnell to Pearse, from Wolfe Tone to Gerry Adams, from the bitter struggle of the Civil War to the uneasy peace of the early twenty-first century.

ISBN:

0330427598 (pbk.)
9780330427593 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)165407005

LCCN:

2008399627

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)