CONTENTS // Preface x111 // 1 A Geographer’s View of Irish History // Dr J. H. Andrews 1 // 2 Prehistoric Ireland // Dr G. F. Mitchell 13 // 3 Early Irish Society: 1ST-9TH Century // F. J. Byrne 25 // 4 THE Beginnings of CHRISTIANITY: 5th and 6th Centuries // Tomas Cardinal O Fiaich 41 // 5 THE Golden Age of Early CHRISTIAN Ireland: // 7th and 8th Centuries // Dr Kathleen Hughes 54 // 6 The Age OF THE VIKING: Wars 9th and 10th Centuries // Liam de Paor 67 // 7 Ireland in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: // c. 1000-1169 // Dr Brian O Cuiv 81 // 8 The Normans: Arrival and Settlement: 1169-c. 1300 // Dr F. X. Martin 95 // 9 THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH COLONY: 13th and 14th Centuries // Dr J. F. Lydon // 113 // 10 THE GAELIC RESURGENCE AND THE GERALDINE Supremacy: // c. 1400 - 1534 // Art Cosgrove 125 // 11 The Tudor Conquest: 1534-1603 // Dr G. A. Hayes-McCoy 139 // 12 The Colonisation of Ulster and the Rebellion of 1641: // 1603-60 // Dr Aidan Clarke 152 // % // 13 THE RESTORATION AND THE JACOBITE WAR: 1660-91 // Dr J. G. Simms 165 // 14 The Age of the Penal Laws: 1691-1778 // Maureen Wall 176 // 15 THE Protestant Nation: 1775-1800 // Dr R. B. McDowell 190 // 16 The Age OF DANIEL O’Connell: 1800-47 // J. H. Whyte 204 // 17 The Great Famine: 1845-50 // Dr E. R. R. Green 218 // 18 FENIANISM, HOME RULE and the Land War: 1850-91 // Dr T. W. Moody 228 // 19 From Parnell to Pearse: 1891-1921 // Dr Donal McCartney 245 // 20 NORTHERN IRELAND: 1921-66 // Dr J. L. McCracken 262
// 21 The Irish Free State and the Republic of IRELAND: 1921-66 // Patrick Lynch 272 // 22 Ireland: 1966-82 // J. H. Whyte 288 // 288 // 23 Ireland: 1982-94 // Dr Richard English 306 // 24 Ireland at The Turn Of THE CENTURY: 1994-2001 // Dr Dermot Keogh 321 // Notes 345 // Bibliography 350 // CHRONOLOGY 396 // CONTRIBUTORS 438 // Index 443