For a small island in the Atlantic, Ireland has had an astonishingly powerful impact on the wider world, both at the height of its independent power in the early middle ages (as a key exporter of Christianity to much of Europe) and at the depth of its colonial subjugation by Britain (as a key exporter of millions of settlers to North America and Australia).
A History of Ireland offers a compelling and lucid account which will be of great value both to the student and to the general reader.

'The book is clearly written and well set out for students to use. It is a very useful introductory text for students who have no prior knowledge of Irish History.' - Sally Warwick-Haller, Kingston University

'...a general survey...for those wanting more.' - Orlando Sentinel

Preface
Introduction
Occupation, Assimilation and Resistance, 1170-1533
Early Modern Ireland
From King William to the Act of Union, 1692-1800
The Nineteenth Century
Founding the States
Post War Ireland and the Modern Troubles
Further Reading
Index

MIKE CRONIN is Senior Research Fellow in History at De Montfort University, Leicester.