Research Catalog

Title

In search of Ireland's heroes : the story of the Irish from the English invasion to the present day / Carmel McCaffrey.

Author

McCaffrey, Carmel.

Publication

Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2006.

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Description

xii, 290 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

"The struggle between English and Irish aspirations for Ireland began with the first English incursions into the country in the twelfth century and have persisted to the present day. Carmel McCaffrey's narrative history of these times is filled with powerful personalities and families who fought - in battle and through constitutional means - to free Ireland from English control. Her book is a sequel to In Search of Ancient Ireland, which traced the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C. to the Norman invasion."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Ireland > History > 1172-
• Ireland > Civilization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-278) and index.

Contents

1. The incomplete conquest -- 2. The recalcitrant colony : FitzGerald power in Ireland -- 3. Princes of Ireland : O'Neill and O'Donnell -- 4. The plantation of Ulster and the erosion of Gaelic Ireland -- 5. Catholic dispossession : the new elite -- 6. Patriots and rebels : Grattan, Tone, and FitzGerald -- 7. A most distressful country : union and famine -- 8. Struggling for land rights and home rule : Charles Stewart Parnell -- 9. Murmuring name upon name : from literature to armed rebellion -- 10. A terrible beauty : the Irish war of independence -- 11. North and south : the two states of Ireland.

ISBN

1566636159 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006009040
• 9781566636155

OCLC

• OCM65064610
• SCSB-14074781

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries