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A Brief History of Ireland

Af: Richard Killeen Engelsk Paperback

A Brief History of Ireland

Af: Richard Killeen Engelsk Paperback
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From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries.

Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for liberty. A Brief History of Ireland is the perfect introduction to this exceptional place, its people and its culture.

Ireland has been home to successive groups of settlers - Celts, Vikings, Normans, Anglo-Scots, Huguenots. It has imported huge ideas, none bigger than Christianity which it then re-exported to Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the Tudor era it became the first colony of the developing English Empire. Its fraught and sometimes brutal relationship with England has dominated its modern history. Killeen argues that religion was decisive in all this: Ireland remained substantially Catholic, setting it at odds with the larger island culturally, religiously and politically. But its own culture and identity have stayed strong, most obviously in literature with a magnificent tradition of writing from the Book of Kells to the modern masters: Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and Heaney.

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From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries.

Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for liberty. A Brief History of Ireland is the perfect introduction to this exceptional place, its people and its culture.

Ireland has been home to successive groups of settlers - Celts, Vikings, Normans, Anglo-Scots, Huguenots. It has imported huge ideas, none bigger than Christianity which it then re-exported to Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the Tudor era it became the first colony of the developing English Empire. Its fraught and sometimes brutal relationship with England has dominated its modern history. Killeen argues that religion was decisive in all this: Ireland remained substantially Catholic, setting it at odds with the larger island culturally, religiously and politically. But its own culture and identity have stayed strong, most obviously in literature with a magnificent tradition of writing from the Book of Kells to the modern masters: Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and Heaney.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9781849014397
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1849014396
Kategori: Europæisk historie
Udg. Dato: 19 jan 2012
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 19 jan 2012
Forfatter(e): Richard Killeen
Forfatter(e) Richard Killeen

Kategori Europæisk historie

ISBN-13 9781849014397

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 352

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 129mm

Højde 197mm

Udg. Dato 19 jan 2012

Oplagsdato 19 jan 2012

Forlag Little, Brown Book Group