The Oxford illustrated history of Ireland

Author(s)

• Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy)

Bibliographic Information

The Oxford illustrated history of Ireland

edited by R.F. Foster

Oxford University Press, 1998

• : new cov.

Note

Bibliography: p. [339]-353

Includes index

"Reissued in new covers 1998, 2000"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Few countries in the world have such a compelling, individual, and stirring history as Ireland. This new volume in a distinguished series offers the most authoritative account of Irish history ever published for the general reader. Written by an expert team of scholars, and richly illustrated throughout, it takes us from the very earliest prehistoric communities and first Christian settlements, through centuries of turbulent change to the present day. The story is one of paradox and ambiguity, as well as of unifying overall themes. Patterns of settlement and colonisation, religious confrontation, and the emergence of new political patterns are among the issues discussed. The question of Irish identity, and the meaning of 'colonialism' in the very Irish sense, raise important questions about the use of language: a special feature of the book is a chapter devoted to the language and literature which preserve, in their way, a record of Irish history. The conflicts, settlements, discontinuities, and unities of Irish history are illustrated with reference to landscape, artefacts, architecture, and an enormous variety of contemporary visual evidence. There are over 200 photographs including 24 full-colour plates, and the volume comes complete with reference material, maps, a chronology, lists of further reading and a full index. Wide-ranging, challenging, and highly readable, this vivid view of Irish history will instruct and entertain students, scholars, and general readers alike.

Table of Contents

• Editor's foreword
• List of colour plates
• List of maps
• Donnchadh O Corrain: Prehistoric and early Christian Ireland
• Katharine Simms: The Norman invasion and the Gaelic recovery
• Nicholas Canny: Early modern Ireland, c. 1500-1700
• R.F. Foster: Ascendancy and union
• David Fitzpatrick: Ireland since 1870
• Declan Kiberd: Irish literature and Irish history
• further reading
• chronology

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA52271412
• ISBN:
  • 0198229704
• LCCN: 89016168
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford, England
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 382 p., [24] p. of plates
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DA910
  • DC20 : 941.5
  • NDC8 : 233.9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ireland -- History
  • LCSH : Ireland -- History -- Pictorial works