An Atlas Of Irish History

by DUDLEY-EDWARDS; RUTH

• ISBN13: 9780415339520
• ISBN10: 0415339529
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-15
• 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	ix
Note on second edition	xi
Note on third edition	xii
I Reference	1	(10)
1 Political geography of Ireland	1	(3)
2 Ulster	4	(1)
3 Munster	4	(1)
4 Leinster	4	(3)
5 Connacht	7	(1)
6 Physical features of Ireland	8	(3)
II Cartography	11	(5)
7 Ireland and its cartographers	14	(2)
III Military developments	16	(55)
8 Strategic considerations	19	(1)
9 Battle sites	20	(7)
10 Continental interventions	27	(3)
11 The Viking invasions	30	(2)
12 The Norman invasion	32	(3)
13 Norman consolidation	35	(3)
14 The Bruce invasion	38	(3)
15 The Nine Years War	41	(2)
16 The 1640's: the Confederation and Cromwell	43	(4)
17 Stuart and Orange	47	(2)
18 The Irish militia	49	(3)
19 The 1798 rising	52	(2)
20 The 1916 rising	54	(4)
21 The War of Independence (Anglo-Irish War)	58	(2)
22 The Civil War	60	(2)
23 Ireland and the Second World War	62	(2)
24 Paramilitary activity: 1926-2004	64	(7)
IV Politics	71	(34)
25 Ireland before the Normans	72	(4)
26 Fourteenth-century Ireland	76	(1)
27 The great families of Ireland	76	(4)
28 The Pale: 1300-1596	80	(2)
29 The development of the Irish parliament	82	(2)
30 The Irish parliament: 1613-1800	84	(3)
31 O'Connell and Young Ireland	87	(3)
32 Irish representation at Westminster: 1800-1918	90	(3)
33 Labour in Ireland: 1907-23	93	(2)
34 Political affiliations in Dáil Éireann: 1918-2002	95	(6)
35 Government in Ireland	101	(4)
V Religion	105	(19)
36 The coming of Christianity	107	(2)
37 Medieval ecclesiastical Ireland	109	(2)
38 Post-Reformation Ireland	111	(2)
39 The dissolution of the monasteries	113	(2)
40 Dissenters in Ireland	115	(3)
41 Religious affiliations	118	(2)
42 Catholicism in crisis	120	(4)
VI The Irish abroad	124	(31)
43 Fourth-century expansion	126	(1)
44 Irish influence abroad: 500-800	126	(3)
45 Irish colleges in Europe	129	(2)
46 Destinations of the emigrants	131	(3)
47 Irish Catholicism abroad	134	(3)
48 The Irish in Britain	137	(4)
49 The Irish in the Empire: soldiers and administrators	141	(2)
50 The Irish in America	143	(3)
51 America and Irish politics	146	(3)
52 International relations	149	(2)
53 Ireland and the European Union	151	(4)
VII Land	155	(19)
54 Tudor plantations	156	(2)
55 Plantations of James I	158	(3)
56 Cromwellian land confiscations	161	(2)
57 The transfer of land ownership: 1603-1778	163	(1)
58 Pre-Famine agriculture	164	(4)
59 The transfer of land ownership: 1870-1916	168	(2)
60 Agriculture in the twentieth century	170	(4)
VIII Infrastructure	174	(10)
61 Early infrastructure	175	(2)
62 Infrastructure in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	177	(2)
63 Modern transport	179	(3)
64 Telecommunications	182	(2)
IX The economy	184	(24)
65 Medieval trade	187	(2)
66 Tudor trade	189	(3)
67 Seventeenth-century trade	192	(3)
68 Eighteenth-century trade	195	(2)
69 Pre-Famine trade	197	(2)
70 Pre-Famine industry	199	(2)
71 Trade and industry in independent Ireland: 1920-90	201	(3)
72 The Celtic Tiger	204	(4)
X Social change	208	(32)
73 Urbanization	210	(2)
74 Towns: 1841-2002	212	(2)
75 Population changes: 1841-51	214	(2)
76 Population changes: 1841-2002	216	(2)
77 Emigration: 1881-2002	218	(1)
78 Education: 1800-2004	218	(7)
79 Irish-speakers: 1851-2004	225	(2)
80 The status of women: 1841-2004	227	(3)
81 Secularization of Irish society: 1960-2000	230	(1)
82 Immigration: 1921-2004	231	(3)
83 Sport	234	(6)
XI Northern Ireland	240	(29)
84 Religious divisions	242	(5)
85 Government: 1921-69	247	(3)
86 Searching for peace	250	(4)
87 Killings: 1969-2005	254	(15)
XII Literature	269	(7)
88 Modern Irish literature	269	(7)
Select bibliography	276	(11)
Index	287