Ireland's history : prehistory to the present / Kenneth L. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Kenneth L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--History.

Ireland.

Ireland--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ireland's History provides an introduction to Irish history that blends a scholarly approach to the subject, based on recent research and current historiographical perspectives, with a clear and accessible writing style. All the major themes in Irish history are covered, from prehistoric times right through to present day, from the emergence of Celtic Christianity after the fall of the Roman Empire, to Ireland and the European Union, secularism and rapprochement with the United Kingdom. By avoiding adopting a purely nationalistic perspective, Kenneth Campbell offers a balanced approach, coveri

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Preface; A Note on Geography and Climate; list of Illustrations; Chapter 1 Irish history-Introduction and overview; Why Irish history?; Why a new history of Ireland?; Irish historiography; Value of understanding earlier periods; Responses open to Ireland throughout history-resistance versus accommodation-and the role of history and literature in influencing those choices; Chapter 2 Prehistoric Ireland; Who are the Irish?; Settled agriculture versus hunting and gathering; Ritual sites and prehistoric religion

Connections between the peoples of Ireland and the rest of the IslesArcheology-ring-forts; Earliest literary sources; Assessment of prehistoric culture and society; Legacy of prehistoric Ireland; Chapter 3 Irish Christianity and early medieval Ireland; Political context for early medieval Ireland; Social context for early medieval Ireland; The first Christian missions; Irish missions; Distinctive features of Irish Christianity; Christianity and culture; The Synod of Whitby and the decline of Irish Christianity; Did the Irish save civilization?

Chapter 4 The impact of the Vikings and the Norman conquestGovernment, law, and social order before the Vikings; Viking invasions and Scandinavian expansion; Trade and assimilation; Irish responses; The Norman invasions of England and Ireland; Irish kingship and the response to the Anglo-Normans; The Irish church and the Normans; Chapter 5 Ireland in the high and late middle ages, ca. 1172-ca. 1485; The beginnings of Irish nationalism?; Medieval Irish literature; The impact of the Anglo-Normans; The influence of the Church; Irish society in the high and late middle ages

Connections to and comparisons with the rest of the IslesThe extent of English colonialism before the Reformation; Chapter 6 Ireland and the Reformation; Divisions within Irish society; Political divisions; Tudor policy toward Ireland under Henry VII and Henry VIII; The position of Ireland in relation to England, Scotland, and Wales; The impact of the Reformation; Tudor policy toward Ireland under Elizabeth I; English colonization; The end of medieval Ireland; Chapter 7 Seventeenth-century Ireland; Ireland under James I; The Irish rebellion of 1641

The "three kingdoms approach": Ireland and the British Civil WarsCromwell and Ireland; Divisions within Ireland; The aftermath of the civil wars; The impact of the revolution of 1688 and the Battle of the Boyne; Chapter 8 Eighteenth-century Ireland; New cultural forces at work; New social forces at work; The impact of the English Ascendancy; Ireland's participation in British trade and its position in the British Empire; Ireland and the Jacobites; Ireland and the American crisis; Eighteenth-century literature; The beginnings of social unrest

Chapter 9 The Rebellion of 1798 and the impact of the French Revolution

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781472567840

1472567846

9781472567826

147256782X

OCLC:

861081489