This series provides a significant scholarly project in modern Irish history. In nine volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day. This volume opens with a character study of the period, followed by ten chapters of narrative history, and a study of Ireland in 1914. It includes further chapters on the economy, literature, the Irish language, music, arts, education, administration and the public service, and emigr ... More
Keywords: Irish history, Irish prehistory, narrative history, 1914, Irish language, Irish economy, Irish literature, Irish music, arts, education
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199583744 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199583744.001.0001 |