The Irish World: The Art and Culture of the Irish People : TextsThe Irish: fact and fiction / E. Estyn Evans -- Prehistoric Ireland, from the earliest migrations to about AD 500 / E. Estyn Evans -- The early Irish church from the coming of Christianity to the end of the Viking era / Kathleen Hughes -- The long Middle Ages, from the twelfth century to the Reformation / Roger Stalley -- The end of the old order, from the Reformation to the Jacobite defeat / Brian de Breffny -- The new culture: domestic life and the arts, 1680-1830 / Rosemary Ffolliott -- The distressed society, the struggle for emancipation and independence, 1801-1918 / Gearoid O Tuathaigh -- The Celtic revival: literature and the theatre / Phillip L. Marcus -- The visual arts / Jeanne Sheehy -- The Irish in America: starvation, struggle and success / William V. Shannon -- Modern Ireland: the birth and growth of the new state / Kevin B. Nowlan. |
Contents
BRIAN DE BREFFNY | 6 |
PREHISTORIC IRELAND | 19 |
From the earliest migrations to about AD 500 | 33 |
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