The seminal history of Ireland's most unusual century, thoroughly
updated for the new millennium. With its starting point the bloody
creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Ireland: A Social and
Cultural History explores how Irish identity has shifted across
eighty years of unprecedented change and violence. What was the
legacy of De Valera and Sinn Fein - or of remaining neutral during
the Second World War? What were the effects of the establishment of
a formally recognised Republic of Ireland in 1949 and thus the
continued status of Northern Ireland as part of Great Britain? How
has the state of virtual civil war that has existed between
Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland ever since altered
the course of Irish history? Terence Brown evokes all the turbulent
(and often confusing) events of the last century and makes sense of
them, showing with skill and wit just how Irish culture escaped
from W B Yeats' backward-looking Celtic Twilight towards modernity.
Ireland: A Social and Cultural History is a fascinating work of
synthesis - and an unforgettable book.
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