Malachy McCourt's history of Ireland
Book - 2004
The pages are populated with figures from myth, history, and the present, from Saint Patrick to Oliver Cromwell, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Charles Parnell, to Sinead O'Connor and Bono. Some beloved, some controversial--each influenced the course of Irish and world history. While McCourt vividly describes Ireland's turbulent history, he also offers a cultural survey with fresh insights to the folklore, literature, art, music, and cuisine of Ireland, producing an irresistible tour through the Emerald Isle.
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Philadelphia :
Running Press
2004.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 1st ed
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- Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description - Physical Description
- 413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-403) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780762431816
9780762419654
- Ireland before Patrick
- I. Peig Sayers : a modern look at an ancient world
- II. Cúchulainn, Fionn mac Cumaill, and Deirdre
- The land of saints and scholars
- III. Patrick from slave boy to patron saint
- IV. Brigid : "the Mary of the Gael"
- V. Columcille : the dove of the church
- The Viking invasion and the high kings of Ireland
- VI. The Vikings and Brian Ború
- VII. High kings and high villains, Turlough O'Connor, Rory O'Connor, and Dermot MacMurrough
- The Norman invasion to Henry VIII : 1169-1537
- VIII. "Strongbow," Richard de Clare
- IX. The earls of Kildare, Gerrold Mór, Gerrold Óg, and Silken Thomas
- The Tudor conquest and the fall of the Gaelic world
- X. Hugh O'Neill, the battle of Kinsale, and the escape of the Earls
- XI. Grace O'Malley, Granuaile
- The seventeenth century : destruction, chaos, and loss
- XII. Rory O'More and Owen Roe O'Neill
- XIII. A short biography of an odious gatecrasher of Irish history
- XIV. Patrick Sarsfield, the wild geese, and penal laws
- XV. Oliver Plunkett
- The great patriots
- XVI. Wolfe Tone
- XVII. Robert Emmet
- XVIII. Daniel O'Connell
- Ireland after the great hunger
- XIX. Charles Stewart Parnell : the uncrowned king of Ireland
- XX. Michael Davitt
- XXI. Douglas Hyde
- A terrible beauty is born : proclaiming the republic
- XXII. Maud Gonne
- XXIII. Padraig Pearse
- XXIV. James Connolly
- A century of Irish voices
- XXV. William Butler Yeats
- XXVI. James Joyce
- XXVII. Samuel Beckett
- Birth pangs of a new nation
- XXVIII. Michael Collins
- XXIX. Eamon de Valera
- Ireland in the modern world
- XXX. Jack Lynch
- XXXI. Conor Cruise O'Brien
- XXXII. F.H. Boland
- People of passion
- XXXIII. Bernadette Devlin
- XXXIV. Bobby Sands
- People of peace
- XXXV. Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams
- A chance for reconciliation
- XXXVI. John Hume
- XXXVII. David Trimble
- XXXVIII. Gerry Adams
- The Celtic tiger and the new Ireland
- XXXIX. Mary Robinson and Bettie Ahern
- XL. Bono.
