First published in 1955 and never out of print, this wonderfully written text by one of the great
historians of the twentieth century has guided generations of students through the turbulent …

The Making of Ireland by James Lydon provides an accessible history of Ireland from the
earliest times. James Lydon recounts, in colourful detail, the waves of settlers, missionaries …

Based on extensive historical, literary and political research, this text examines the
relationship between ideas and political and social reality. It explains why the aspirations of …

Between 1535 and 1603, more than 200 English Catholics were executed by the State for
treason. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary sources, Anne Dillon examines …

The object of the present essay is to suggest that the mainstream tradition of Irish historical
scholarship, as it has developed since the 1930s, has been vitiated by a faulty …

Migration-people moving in as immigrants, around as migrants, and out as emigrants-is a
major theme of Irish history. This is the first book to offer both a survey of the last four …

This book provides a critical interpretation of the construction of Irish national identity in the
longer perspective of history. Drawing on recent sociological theory, the authors …

At the rise of the Tudor age, England began to form a national identity. With that sense of self
came the beginnings of the colonialist notion of the"" other"""" Ireland, however, proved a …

Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its
ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and pleasure? This book, first published in …

It is a commonplace of recent British historiography that in the early modern period a
sophisticated and sceptical concept of writing history began to develop which involved …