Ireland and the Irish a short history
Karl S. Bottigheimer
- New York Columbia University Press 1982
- 301 p
Insular condition and early habitation -- Heroic age: the Celtic, Viking, and Norman inheritance -- Late medieval Ireland and the Tudor conquest -- Making of the Protestant ascendancy: the seventeenth century -- Ireland as a Protestant "nation": the eighteenth century -- Catholic Ireland resurgent: the nineteenth century -- New state established: triumphs and dilemmas -- Irish abroad: examples and conclusions -- Literature and the Irish.
The history of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present. Includes separate chapters concerning the Protestants and Catholics.