The story of Ireland : a history of the Irish people

Summary: A history of how Ireland has been shaped by outside influences throughout the past 2,500 years that challenges popular beliefs while discussing such topics as Europe's religious wars, foreign revolutions, and Ireland's World War II neutrality.

Record details

ISBN: 9781250060020 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1250060028 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781250002891 (hbk.)
ISBN: 1250002893 (hbk.)
Physical Description: print
380 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Published to accompany the television series entitled Story of Ireland first broadcast on BBCNI and RTE in 2011"--Title page verso. Originally published in slightly different form: London : BBC Books, ©2011.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Gods and warriors -- The long conquest -- Faith and fatherland -- The great change -- Two Irelands -- Afterword -- Timeline of events.