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A Selection from Richard Killeen
Published: 17/01/12 Paperback From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - this title shows how Ireland has been shaped 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, and Huguenots. It has imported huge ideas, none bigger than Christianity which it then re-exported to Europe after the fall of... (more info) Usually despatched immediately
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Historic Atlas of Dublinby Richard Killeen | Dublin started as a Viking trading settlement in the middle of the tenth century. Location was the key to its quick ascendancy among Irish... (more info) Usually despatched immediately
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| | A Short History of the 1916 Risingby Richard Killeen | This book explores the background to the rising, the development of the Fenian tradition running in parallel with the parliamentary... (more info) Usually despatched immediately
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| | A Short History of the Irish Revolution: 1912 to 1927by Richard Killeen | The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act... (more info) Usually despatched immediately
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| | A Timeline of Irish Historyby Richard Killeen | A Timeline of Irish History is popular reference publishing at its best: concise, attractively presented and reliable. This is a crisply... (more info) Usually despatched immediately
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| | The main legacy of the French revolution was nationalism, the demand for separate nation states independent of multi-national and multi-lingual empires. Irish nationalism was no exception. Its first early manifestation was the 1798 Rebellion, but the actual form that nationalism took in the course of the nineteenth century relied less on abstract principle than on a demand for Catholic rights. This proved difficult in the context of the pan-Protestant United Kingdom. The Famine of the 1840s... (more info) Usually despatched immediately
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