by Michael Mc Conville (Author)
'I recommend this book as pure pleasure' says Molly Keane 'I found myself ecstatically immersed in the most entertaining and fascinating book I have read for a long time'. Having traced the origins of the Anglo-Irish, the author offers a colourful account of the rise and sudden disappearance of the Protestant oligarchy that dominated Irish life from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and a general survey of Irish history.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 18 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 1842122711
ISBN 13: 9781842122716
Book Overview: A detailed study of a much-neglected group - the elite oligarchy of the Anglo-Irish The Anglo-Irish gave Ireland much of her modern culture and architecture, but also left a legacy that has festered ever since A highly original insight into the Troubles, as well as a history of some of the grandest inhabitants of these islands