Oct 25, 2013 · A short history of Ireland - BBC Radio 7. Short accounts of Irish labour history from 1761 to 1913. Hearts of Steel and Hearts of Oak. The land war. The relief of Captain Boycott. The great Dublin lockout. Printer-friendly version. Ireland. Northern Ireland.

A Short History of Ireland. Change is constant in human affairs and Ireland has seen its fair share over the centuries. If we are to understand Ireland's current challenges then we must grasp the complexity of its past. This concise and even-handed account describes the history of Ireland from early times.

Oct 11, 2012 · A Short History of Ireland. "This third edition of John O'Beirne Ranelagh's classic history of Ireland incorporates contemporary political and economic events as well as the latest archaeological and DNA discoveries. Comprehensively revised and updated throughout, it considers Irish history from the earliest times through the Celts, Cromwell ...

Nov 01, 2010 · A Brief History of Ireland: Land, People, History by Richard Killeen is necessarily brief and must omit a great deal. It begins at the dawn of history 12,500 years ago and goes to the decline of the Celtic Tiger in the early Twenty-first Century. Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries, but three factors have predominated ...

Jan 24, 2012 · Richard Killeen is a historian and the editorial director of an Irish publishing company. He has written a number of books on Ireland's past including A Short History of the 1916 Rising and The Concise History of Modern Ireland.