Ebook: The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923

Technically this book is a masterly achievement: the collection, sorting, selecting & balancing of material has meant an immense amount of hard & highly skilful work. The presentation is not only learned but cool, objective, unimpassioned & yet almost always alive & compassionate as well...As a reference book alone it is immensely valuable...As an example of a humane, scholarly, expert history, Prof. Beckett's book will be difficult to surpass.'--D.B. Quinn, Belfast Telegraph
[He] has brilliantly succeeded. The book is admirably constructed & written with clarity & economy which carry the narrative unflaggingly thru to the end...This excellent book supersedes all previous histories of modern Ireland.--F.S.L. Lyons, New Statesman
Preface
Pacta Hibernia
Ireland in the early seventeenth century
Protestant & recusant: the constitutional struggle, 1603-41
The war of the three kingdoms
Confiscation & settlement
Restoration Ireland
'The glorious memory'
The emergence of the Protestant nation
The economic & social basis of the Protestant nation
The rise of the patriots
The winning of a constitution
'Grattan's parliament'
The impact of revolution
The end of the Irish parliament
From union to Catholic emancipation
O'Connell & the policy of repeal
The great famine
Land & politics, 1850-70
The beginnings of the home rule movement
"The uncrowned king'
The policy of conciliation, 1891-1905
The home rule crisis, 1906-14
The revolution in Ireland, 1914-23
Select Bibliography
Index
Maps