A Short History of Ireland

Here is a readable outline of Irish history which traces the successive invasions of Celts, Vikings, and Normans, the Tudor and Stuart settlements, and the gradual emergence of the 'Irish question' in British political life.Much of the book is concerned with the failure of the union with Great Britain, and the consequent partition of the island. and the author finds the origins of today's Irish troubles in the political, religious, and economic problems of the past.A special chapter on discovering Irish history helps the reader to seek in modern Ireland the marks left by previous generations.