An Atlas Of Irish History

by DUDLEY-EDWARDS; RUTH

• ISBN13: 9780415278591
• ISBN10: 0415278597
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-12-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The history of Ireland and its people is one of incredible richness and variety. Combining over 100 beautifully crafted maps, charts and graphs with a narrative packed with facts and information,An Atlas of Irish Historyprovides coverage of the main political, military, economic, religious and social changes that have occurred in Ireland and among the Irish abroad over the past two millennia. Ruth Dudley Edwards uses the combination of thematic narrative and visual aids to examine and illustrate issues such as: * the Viking invasions of Ireland * the Irish in Britain * pre- and post-famine agriculture * population change * twentieth-century political affiliations. This third edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to include coverage of the many changes that have occurred in Ireland and among its people overseas. Taking into consideration the main issues that have developed since 1981, and adding a number of new maps and graphs, this new edition also includesan informative and detailed section on the troubles that have been a feature of Irish life since 1969.

Author Biography

Ruth Dudley Edwards is a prize-winning historian and biographer Bridget Hourican is an historian attached to the Royal Irish Academy, where she is working on the forthcoming Dictionary of Irish Biography

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Note on second edition	p. xi
Note on third edition	p. xii
Reference	p. 1
Political geography of Ireland	p. 1
Ulster	p. 4
Munster	p. 4
Leinster	p. 4
Connacht	p. 7
Physical features of Ireland	p. 8
Cartography	p. 11
Ireland and its cartographers	p. 14
Military developments	p. 16
Strategic considerations	p. 19
Battle sites	p. 20
Continental interventions	p. 27
The Viking invasions	p. 30
The Norman invasion	p. 32
Norman consolidation	p. 35
The Bruce invasion	p. 38
The Nine Years War	p. 41
The 1640s: the Confederation and Cromwell	p. 43
Stuart and Orange	p. 47
The Irish militia	p. 49
The 1798 rising	p. 52
The 1916 rising	p. 54
The War of Independence (Anglo-Irish War)	p. 58
The Civil War	p. 60
Ireland and the Second World War	p. 62
Paramilitary activity: 1926-2004	p. 64
Politics	p. 71
Ireland before the Normans	p. 72
Fourteenth-century Ireland	p. 76
The great families of Ireland	p. 76
The Pale: 1300-1596	p. 80
The development of the Irish parliament	p. 82
The Irish parliament: 1613-1800	p. 84
O'Connell and Young Ireland	p. 87
Irish representation at Westminster: 1800-1918	p. 90
Labour in Ireland: 1907-23	p. 93
Political affiliations in Dail Eireann: 1918-2002	p. 95
Government in Ireland	p. 101
Religion	p. 105
The coming of Christianity	p. 107
Medieval ecclesiastical Ireland	p. 109
Post-Reformation Ireland	p. 111
The dissolution of the monasteries	p. 113
Dissenters in Ireland	p. 115
Religious affiliations	p. 118
Catholicism in crisis	p. 120
The Irish abroad	p. 124
Fourth-century expansion	p. 126
Irish influence abroad: 500-800	p. 126
Irish colleges in Europe	p. 129
Destinations of the emigrants	p. 131
Irish Catholicism abroad	p. 134
The Irish in Britain	p. 137
The Irish in the Empire: soldiers and administrators	p. 141
The Irish in America	p. 143
America and Irish politics	p. 146
International relations	p. 149
Ireland and the European Union	p. 151
Land	p. 155
Tudor plantations	p. 156
Plantations of James I	p. 158
Cromwellian land confiscations	p. 161
The transfer of land ownership: 1603-1778	p. 163
Pre-Famine agriculture	p. 164
The transfer of land ownership: 1870-1916	p. 168
Agriculture in the twentieth century	p. 170
Infrastructure	p. 174
Early infrastructure	p. 175
Infrastructure in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	p. 177
Modern transport	p. 179
Telecommunications	p. 182
The economy	p. 184
Medieval trade	p. 187
Tudor trade	p. 189
Seventeenth-century trade	p. 192
Eighteenth-century trade	p. 195
Pre-Famine trade	p. 197
Pre-Famine industry	p. 199
Trade and industry in independent Ireland: 1920-90	p. 201
The Celtic Tiger	p. 204
Social change	p. 208
Urbanization	p. 210
Towns: 1841-2002	p. 212
Population changes: 1841-51	p. 214
Population changes: 1841-2002	p. 216
Emigration: 1881-2002	p. 218
Education: 1800-2004	p. 218
Irish-speakers: 1851-2004	p. 225
The status of women: 1841-2004	p. 227
Secularization of Irish society: 1960-2000	p. 230
Immigration: 1921-2004	p. 231
Sport	p. 234
Northern Ireland	p. 240
Religious divisions	p. 242
Government: 1921-69	p. 247
Searching for peace	p. 250
Killings: 1969-2005	p. 254
Literature	p. 269
Modern Irish literature	p. 269
Select bibliography	p. 276
Index	p. 287
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