Product Description
The 13 essays in this slim volume cover 13 benchmark events in recorded Irish history -
The Building of Newgrange and the Boyne Tombs
Coming of Christianity
Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf 1014
The Norman Invasion,
The flight of the Earls
The Plantations of Ulster
The Act of Union, 1801
The decline of the Irish language ( much exaggerated, that one...)
Catholic Emancipation, 1829
The Land War 1979-1881
Founding of the Gaelic League and the Irish Renaissance
Partition and Civil War 1921-23
European Economic Community from 1973 onwards