Ireland: A History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day - Hardcover

Johnson, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0841907587 ISBN 13: 9780841907584

Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc, 1980

Synopsis

Drawing from a wealth of historical and scholarly sources, Johnson traces the important social, religious and political development of Ireland's struggle to become a unified, settled country. Johnson describes with accurate detail Ireland's barbarous beginnings, Oliver Cromwell's religious "crusade, " the tragic Irish potato famine, the Ulster resistance and the outstanding fact of the constant British-Irish connection and the fearful toll of life it exacted. Among the anonymous multitude are famous names such as "Silken Thom" Kildare, Thomas Wentworth, Archbishop Plunkett and Lord Frederick Cavendish. And yet many great men marshaled their energies and wits to settle Ireland: Sir Henry Sidney, Sire Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, Chruchill and others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0841907587
• ISBN 13: 9780841907584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224