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Author: Neil Hegarty
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Contents
Copyright
Introduction
Irish History
Mesolithic Ireland
The Céide Fields
Newgrange
History and Myth: Cúchulainn
The Celts
Dún Aonghasa
The Broighter Hoard
Hibernia and Rome
Before Christianity
Palladius: the ‘first Patrick’
Patrick: myth and reality
Pilgrimage
‘Saints and Scholars’
Glendalough
Dál Riata
Colm Cille
Columbanus in Europe
The Irish language
Skellig Michael
Illumination
‘Heathen men’
The Viking presence
Dublin
Brian Boru
Laudabiliter
Invasion
Giraldus Cambrensis
A royal visit
Dublin Castle
The Lordship of Ireland
The ‘Remonstrance of the Princes’
The Bruce Invasion
The Statutes of Kilkenny
Reconquest
Surrender and Regrant
‘Great Terror’
Granuaile
Trinity College Dublin
Kinsale
The Flight of the Earls
The Wild Geese
The Plantation of Ulster
The Walls of Derry
1641
Cromwell
A ‘deluded and seduced people’
The Act of Settlement
The Big House
The Siege of Derry
The Battle of the Boyne
The Penal Laws
Marsh’s Library
The Royal Hospital
Georgian Dublin
Swift
The Irish Parliament
Irish Presbyterianism in America
The United Irishmen
1798
The Act of Union
Maria Edgeworth
Wellington
Moore’s Melodies
Irish Lights
Emancipation
O’Connell and Repeal
The Great Hunger
The Famine and the Future
The Irish Diaspora
The Fenians
The Church Ascendant
The ‘Irish Question’
The Revival
The Gaelic Athletic Association
The Abbey Theatre
Yeats and Joyce
Industrial Ulster
Titanic
The Ulster Covenant
A World at War
The Easter Rising