A short history of Ireland

History

Beckett, J.C.

Europe

(3 Fitzfoy Sq., W.1) Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd

No country has a history more confused by prejudice and emotion than Ireland. By disentangling the numerous threads from St Patrick's mission onwards, the author shows how present-day Ireland evolved and makes her modern history intelligible. He pays particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries where, clearly and impartially, he relates the bitter conflict between Ireland and England.

A short history of Ireland: From earliest times to the present day

Hutchinson

Confrontations: studies in Irish history

FABER

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The Anglo-Irish tradition

The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923

<p>Second revised edition of this masterly history of a troubled land. "The presentation is not only learned but cool, objective, unimpassioned and yet almost always alive and compassionate as well...As a reference book alone it is immensely valuable...As an example of a humane, scholarly, expert history, Professor Beckett's book will be difficult to surpass." D. B. Quinn in The Belfast Telegraph. 519 pages with index and maps.</p>

Faber and Faber Ltd.

<p>Technically this book is a masterly achievement: the collection, sorting, selecting and balancing of material has meant an immense amount of hard and highly skilful work. The presentation is not only learned but cool, objective, unimpassioned and yet almost always alive and compassionate as well . . . As a reference book alone it is immensely valuable . . . As an example of a humane, scholarly, expert history, Professor Beckett's book will be difficult to surpass.' D. B. Quinn, Belfast Telegraph '[He] has brilliantly succeeded. The book is admirably constructed and written with clarity and economy which carry the narrative unflaggingly through to the end . . . This excellent book supersedes all previous histories of modern Ireland.' F. S. L. Lyons, New Statesman</p>

Faber&Faber

I was brought up to think myself Irish without question or qualification,' wrote the Irish author and politician, Stephen Gwynn, in the 1920s, 'but the new nationalism prefers to describe me and the like of me as Anglo-Irish.' This new nationalism maintained that the only true Irishman was a Gael, and Gaelic culture the only truly Irish culture. Other elements, if they could not be eliminated, must be given a label indicating their 'foreign' origin.  'Anglo-Irish was the name given to the descendents and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy that had ruled Ireland in the eighteenth century, to which belonged Swift and Burke, Goldsmith and Grattan. They were, in general, members of the Church of Ireland and mainly, though not exclusively, of English extraction. But they certainly felt themselves to be Irish, however they might differ from the majority of their countrymen.  In this book J. C. Beckett maintains that the Anglo-Irish tradition is an essential part of the life of Ireland. He traces its history down to the Treaty of 1921, and discusses briefly the significance for Ireland of their decline, both in numbers and in influence, after that date.

The Anglo-Irish Tradition

Faber and Faber

Cornell University Press

Queen's. A Short History Of Queen's College Belfast And The Queen's University Of Belfast

The Queen;s University

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