Course of Irish History - Hardcover

Moody, T. W. & Martin F. X.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 085342120X ISBN 13: 9780853421207

Publisher: Weybright and Talley, Inc., 1967

Synopsis

This book is the first of its kind--a rapid survey, with a geographical introduction, of the whole course of Ireland's history from the middle stone age to 1966, written by twenty-one scholars, all specialists in their own fields. The book is based on the successful series of television programs first transmitted by Radio Telefis Eirann from January to June 1966.

About this title

Review

Much Irish history is written as a matter of heroes and leaders, of great personalities and sweeping events. T. W. Moody and F. X. Martin's collection of essays by leading historians offers all those things, but it takes the land itself as its starting point. Ireland, they write, has always been poor because of its ungiving soil; always isolated because of its ring of imposing mountains and steep hills--but always open to invasion from the east across the calm, narrow Irish Sea, because of which, they write, "our present-day laws and institutions have their origins in England." While taking a long view of events, they manage to compress thousands of years of history into this fact-filled, highly readable book.

About the Author

Dr Dermot Keogh is Professor of History at University College, Cork. He is the co-author of a number of books including 'The Making of the Irish Constitution', 'Ireland in World War Two' and 'Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Weybright and Talley, Inc.
• Publication date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 085342120X
• ISBN 13: 9780853421207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404