Irish History For Dummies, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-1-119-99587-6
Paperback
384 pages
July 2011
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Part I: The Snakes Leave Ireland 9
Chapter 1: No Man Is an Ireland 11
Chapter 2: The First People Arrive 21
Chapter 3: The Early Irish Kings 35
Chapter 4: Snakes Alive! Christianity Comes to Ireland 45
Part II: The Normans Are Coming! The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 63
Chapter 5: The Vikings Arrive First 65
Chapter 6: Irish vs Norman Invaders But Who’s in Charge? 79
Chapter 7: Boy Meets Gael: The Norman-Irish Alliance 93
Part III: The Invading English Kings: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 109
Chapter 8: The Scottish-Irish Rebellion and Its Aftermath 111
Chapter 9: From Richard II to Henry IV: More Turmoil in Ireland 127
Chapter 10: Family Feuds I: The Wars of the Roses 139
Part IV: Religious Wars and Family Feuds: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 155
Chapter 11: Popes Versus Archbishops: The Reformation and Ireland 157
Chapter 12: Religious Roundabouts and Irish Rebellion 169
Chapter 13: James I and the Plantations; Charles I and Chaos 185
Chapter 14: Family Feuds II and III: The English Civil War, then William and James 201
Part V: Catholic and Protestant: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 217
Chapter 15: Going Irish? Grattan’s Parliament and Wolfe Tone’s Rebellion 219
Chapter 16: Going British: The Act of Union 231
Chapter 17: Three Strikes for Irish Independence: O’Connell, Davis, and Mitchel 247
Chapter 18: The Great Hunger and the Land War 263
Chapter 19: The Fight Over Home Rule 283
Part VI: Divided in Two: Life from the 1880s 299
Chapter 20: Balls and Books in Irish: The Cultural Revival 301
Chapter 21: Fighting Against Britain: The Revolution 315
Chapter 22: One Land, Two Systems: Partition 329
Chapter 23: Troubles Begin Again And Maybe Finish 347
Part VII: The Part of Tens 369
Chapter 24: Ten Top Turning Points 371
Chapter 25: Ten Major Documents 375
Chapter 26: Ten Things the Irish Have Given the World 379
Chapter 27: Ten Great Irish Places to Visit 385
Chapter 28: Ten Irish People Who Should Be Better Known 391
Index 397