Modern Ireland 1600-1972

by R. Foster (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $6.00

  This survey of the history of modern Ireland begins in 1600, with the end of the Elizabethan wars and the establishment of the Ulster plantation, and ends in 1972, the year in which the Republic joined the EEC and the Stormont parliament in Northern Ireland was suspended. Social, cultural and economic factors are given as much prominence as politics, and there are thematic chapters on such topics as emigration, colonization and ascendency culture. The author incorporates the controversies and conclusions which have emerged over the last 25 years and also presents his own personal view of the emergence of modern Ireland during the last three centuries. R.F.Foster is author of Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and His Family and Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life .

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $6.21

  Masterfully blending narrative and interpretation, and R.F. Foster's Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his generation . (Colm Toibin, London Review of Books ). Remarkable...Foster gives a wise and balanced account of both forces of unity and forces of diversity...a master work of scholarship . (Bernard Crick, New Statesman ). A tour de force...Anyone who really wants to make sense of Ireland and the Irish must read Roy Foster's magnificent and accessible Modern Ireland . (Anthony Clare). A magnificent book. It supersedes all other accounts of modern Irish history . (Conor Cruise O'Brien, Sunday Times ). Dazzling...a masterly survey not so much of the events of Irish history over the past four centuries as of the way in which those events acted upon the peoples living in Ireland to produce in our own time an Irish Nation ...a gigantic and distinguished undertaking . (Robert Kee, Observer ). A work of gigantic importance. It is everything that a history book should be. It is beautifully and clearly written; it seeps wisdom through its every pore; it is full of the most elegant and scholarly insights; it is magnificently authoritative and confident...Modern Ireland is quite simply the single most important book on Irish history written in this generation...A masterpiece . (Kevin Myers, Irish Times ). R. F. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His books include Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 , Luck and the Irish and W. B. Yeats: A Life .

• New

  Paperback
  1990

  $17.77

  Masterfully blending narrative and interpretation, and R.F. Foster's Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his generation . (Colm Toibin, London Review of Books ). Remarkable...Foster gives a wise and balanced account of both forces of unity and forces of diversity...a master work of scholarship . (Bernard Crick, New Statesman ). A tour de force...Anyone who really wants to make sense of Ireland and the Irish must read Roy Foster's magnificent and accessible Modern Ireland . (Anthony Clare). A magnificent book. It supersedes all other accounts of modern Irish history . (Conor Cruise O'Brien, Sunday Times ). Dazzling...a masterly survey not so much of the events of Irish history over the past four centuries as of the way in which those events acted upon the peoples living in Ireland to produce in our own time an Irish Nation ...a gigantic and distinguished undertaking . (Robert Kee, Observer ). A work of gigantic importance. It is everything that a history book should be. It is beautifully and clearly written; it seeps wisdom through its every pore; it is full of the most elegant and scholarly insights; it is magnificently authoritative and confident...Modern Ireland is quite simply the single most important book on Irish history written in this generation...A masterpiece . (Kevin Myers, Irish Times ). R. F. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His books include Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 , Luck and the Irish and W. B. Yeats: A Life .