A history of Ireland in 250 episodes

Cover
Title page
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1: The Irish landscape: the last Ice Age and after
Chapter 2: Mesolithic Ireland
Chapter 3: Neolithic Ireland: the first farmers
Chapter 4: Neolithic megaliths
Chapter 5: Copper, bronze and gold: 2000–1000 BC
Chapter 6: Before the Celts
Chapter 7: The coming of the Celts
Chapter 8: Preparing for the Otherworld in pre-Christian Celtic Ireland
Chapter 9: Kings and champions
Chapter 10: Agricola plans to conquer Ireland
Chapter 11: Patrick the Briton
Chapter 12: The early Irish church
Chapter 13: A land of many kings
Chapter 14: Poets, judges, nobles, the free and the unfree
Chapter 15: Homesteads and crannogs
Chapter 16: Living off the land
Chapter 17: Saints and scholars
Chapter 18: ‘Not the work of men but of angels’
Chapter 19: St Columba, St Columbanus and the wandering Irish
Chapter 20: The coming of the Vikings
Chapter 21: The wars of the Gael and the Gall
Chapter 22: Viking towns and cities
Chapter 23: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf
Chapter 24: ‘A trembling sod’
Chapter 25: The rape of Dervorgilla
Chapter 26: ‘At Baginbun, Ireland was lost and won’
Chapter 27: Waterford and Dublin: a tale of two sieges
Chapter 28: Henry II comes to Ireland
Chapter 29: The lordship of Ireland
Chapter 30: Conquests and a failed treaty
Chapter 31: John, Lord of Ireland
Chapter 32: ‘Dreading the fury of the king’
Chapter 33: The English colony
Chapter 34: Feudal Ireland
Chapter 35: ‘A great affliction befell the country’
Chapter 36: Edward Bruce ‘caused the whole of Ireland to tremble’
Chapter 37: ‘Famine filled the country’
Chapter 38: The Black Death
Chapter 39: Gallowglasses
Chapter 40: ‘More Irish than the Irish themselves’
Chapter 41: The Statute of Kilkenny
Chapter 42: ‘Into the land of the savage Irish where King O’Neill reigned supreme’
Chapter 43: A Catalan pilgrim among the unconquered Irish
Chapter 44: Richard II’s great expedition to Ireland
Chapter 45: The Pale
Chapter 46: Beyond the Pale
Chapter 47: Garret Mór FitzGerald, the Great Earl of Kildare
Chapter 48: The decline of the House of Kildare
Chapter 49: The rebellion of Silken Thomas
Chapter 50: The church in turmoil
Chapter 51: ‘Sober ways, politic drifts, and amiable persuasions’
Chapter 52: Conn Bacach O’Neill visits London
Chapter 53: Religious strife and plantation
Chapter 54: Shane the Proud
Chapter 55: The fall of Shane O’Neill
Chapter 56: A failed plantation and a bloody feast in Belfast
Chapter 57: An English queen, a Scottish lady and a dark daughter
Chapter 58: ‘Warring against a she-tyrant’: holy war in Munster
Chapter 59: The plantation of Munster
Chapter 60: The wreck of the Armada
Chapter 61: The last voyage of the Girona
Chapter 62: The adventures of Captain Francisco de Cuellar
Chapter 63: ‘The wild Irish are barbarous and most filthy in their diet’
Chapter 64: ‘A fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief’
Chapter 65: The capture of Red Hugh O’Donnell
Chapter 66: The escape of Red Hugh O’Donnell
Chapter 67: Granuaile: the pirate queen of Connacht
Chapter 68: Granuaile and the Composition of Connacht
Chapter 69: The Nine Years War begins
Chapter 70: ‘Freeing the country from the rod of tyrannical evil’
Chapter 71: ‘The scurvy fort of Blackwater’
Chapter 72: ‘A quick end made of a slow proceeding’: the Earl of Essex’s failure
Chapter 73: Mountjoy and Docwra
Chapter 74: ‘We spare none of what quality or sex soever’
Chapter 75: The Battle of Christmas Eve
Chapter 76: The Treaty of Mellifont
Chapter 77: ‘Remember, remember, the Fifth of November’
Chapter 78: ‘I know that they wish to kill him by poison or by any possible means’
Chapter 79: The Flight of the Earls
Chapter 80: ‘We would rather have chosen to die in our own country’
Chapter 81: ‘Bring in colonies of civil people of England and Scotland’
Chapter 82: A lucky escape, Scottish lairds and the division of Clandeboye
Chapter 83: Planting Down and Antrim
Chapter 84: The rebellion of Sir Cahir O’Doherty
Chapter 85: The plantation of Ulster
Chapter 86: ‘Make speed, get thee to Ulster’
Chapter 87: The Londonderry plantation
Chapter 88: The luck of the draw
Chapter 89: ‘The heretics intend to vomit out all their poison’
Chapter 90: Thomas Wentworth and the ‘Graces’
Chapter 91: The Eagle Wing and the Black Oath
Chapter 92: Presbyterian anger, Catholic resentment
Chapter 93: October 1641: the plot that failed
Chapter 94: The 1641 massacres
Chapter 95: The Confederation of Kilkenny
Chapter 96: ‘Your word is Sancta Maria!’
Chapter 97: ‘The righteous judgment of God’
Chapter 98: The curse of Cromwell
Chapter 99: ‘To Hell or Connacht’
Chapter 100: Priests and tories
Chapter 101: Restoration Ireland
Chapter 102: Ormond
Chapter 103: Work, food and leisure
Chapter 104: The Popish Plot
Chapter 105: The trial of Oliver Plunkett
Chapter 106: ‘Lilliburlero’
Chapter 107: Three kings and thirteen apprentice boys
Chapter 108: ‘No surrender!’
Chapter 109: The Relief of Derry
Chapter 110: Schomberg
Chapter 111: The Battle of the Boyne
Chapter 112: Galloping Hogan, Sarsfield and the walls of Limerick
Chapter 113: Athlone and Aughrim: June–July 1691
Chapter 114: Limerick: a second siege and a treaty
Chapter 115: The Wild Geese
Chapter 116: The Penal Laws
Chapter 117: ‘The minority prevailing over the majority’
Chapter 118: The Protestant Ascendancy
Chapter 119: John Dunton eats and sleeps in Connemara
Chapter 120: Wood’s Halfpence and the Drapier
Chapter 121: A modest proposal
Chapter 122: 1740: the year of the Great Frost
Chapter 123: 1741: the ‘Year of the Slaughter’
Chapter 124: The first performance of Handel’s Messiah
Chapter 125: The second city of the Empire
Chapter 126: Dublin: poverty, crime and duels
Chapter 127: ‘The Irish gentry are an expensive people’
Chapter 128: ‘A sort of despot’
Chapter 129: Hearts of Steel, Hearts of Oak
Chapter 130: Clearing the land
Chapter 131: The peasantry
Chapter 132: ‘Superfine cloth, of home manufacture’
Chapter 133: Ulster’s domestic linen industry
Chapter 134: Wash-mills, bleach-greens and beetling engines
Chapter 135: ‘A vast number of people shipping off for Pennsylvania and Boston’
Chapter 136: The voyage of the Sally
Chapter 137: The American Revolution and Ireland
Chapter 138: ‘Free Trade—or Else!’
Chapter 139: The Dungannon Convention
Chapter 140: ‘I am now to address a free people’
Chapter 141: The failure of reform
Chapter 142: ‘Fourteenth July 1789; Sacred to Liberty’
Chapter 143: The United Irishmen
Chapter 144: The Belfast Harp Festival of 1792
Chapter 145: At war with France
Chapter 146: Earl Fitzwilliam’s failure
Chapter 147: Peep o’ Day Boys and Defenders
Chapter 148: ‘I will blow your soul to the low hills of Hell’
Chapter 149: ‘The French are in the bay’
Chapter 150: ‘Nothing but terror will keep them in order’
Chapter 151: ‘Croppies, lie down!’
Chapter 152: ‘Rouse, Hibernians, from your slumbers’
Chapter 153: The Boys of Wexford
Chapter 154: The Battle of New Ross
Chapter 155: The rebellion spreads north
Chapter 156: Rebellion in County Antrim
Chapter 157: Rebellion in County Down
Chapter 158: Vinegar Hill
Chapter 159: The Races of Castlebar
Chapter 160: The Union proposed
Chapter 161: ‘Jobbing with the most corrupt people under Heaven’
Chapter 162: The passing of the Act of Union
Chapter 163: Robert Emmet
Chapter 164: ‘Now is your time for liberty!’
Chapter 165: ‘Let no man write my epitaph’
Chapter 166: Caravats and Shanavests
Chapter 167: Ribbonmen, Orangemen and Rockites
Chapter 168: Emancipation refused
Chapter 169: The Catholic Association
Chapter 170: The ‘invasion’ of Ulster
Chapter 171: The Clare Election
Chapter 172: ‘Scum condensed of lrish bog!’
Chapter 173: A social laboratory
Chapter 174: The Tithe War
Chapter 175: ‘Property has its duties as well as its rights’
Chapter 176: The Repealer repulsed
Chapter 177: Monster meetings
Chapter 178: A Nation Once Again?
Chapter 179: ‘The misery of Ireland descends to degrees unknown’
Chapter 180: ‘So much wretchedness’
Chapter 181: The census of 1841
Chapter 182: Phytophthora infestans
Chapter 183: ‘Give us food, or we perish’
Chapter 184: The Famine in Skibbereen
Chapter 185: Fever
Chapter 186: Emigration
Chapter 187: The Battle of Widow McCormack’s Cabbage Patch
Chapter 188: The Fenian Brotherhood
Chapter 189: ‘The green flag will be flying independently’
Chapter 190: ‘God Save Ireland!’
Chapter 191: The growth of Belfast
Chapter 192: Party fights
Chapter 193: ‘My mission is to pacify Ireland’
Chapter 194: ‘Keep a firm grip of your homesteads’
Chapter 195: The Land War
Chapter 196: The relief of Captain Boycott
Chapter 197: Assassination in the Phoenix Park
Chapter 198: The First Home Rule Bill
Chapter 199: ‘Is them ’uns bate?’
Chapter 200: The Belfast riots of 1886
Chapter 201: Belfast: an imperial city
Chapter 202: Committee Room 15
Chapter 203: ‘Keep our noble kingdom whole’
Chapter 204: The Second Home Rule Bill
Chapter 205: ‘The country is bleeding to death’
Chapter 206: Killing Home Rule with kindness
Chapter 207: ‘De-anglicising the Irish people’
Chapter 208: Two nations?
Chapter 209: Cultural revival
Chapter 210: Home Rule promised
Chapter 211: The Covenant
Chapter 212: The great Dublin lock-out
Chapter 213: The Curragh ‘mutiny’
Chapter 214: To the brink of civil war
Chapter 215: ‘Faithful to Erin, we answer her call!’
Chapter 216: The conspirators prepare
Chapter 217: ‘We’re going to be slaughtered’
Chapter 218: Easter Week
Chapter 219: Executions and internment
Chapter 220: Sacrifice at the Somme
Chapter 221: The rise of Sinn Féin
Chapter 222: The First Dáil
Chapter 223: Return to violence
Chapter 224: Terror and reprisal
Chapter 225: ‘The dreary steeples’
Chapter 226: Partition
Chapter 227: ‘Stretch out the hand of forbearance’
Chapter 228: The Treaty
Chapter 229: The split
Chapter 230: Troubles north and south
Chapter 231: Civil war
Chapter 232: Green against Green
Chapter 233: Divided Ulster
Chapter 234: ‘Not an inch!’
Chapter 235: Northern Ireland: depression years
Chapter 236: ‘An empty political formula’
Chapter 237: The Economic War
Chapter 238: Democracy in peril
Chapter 239: ‘Forget the unhappy past’
Chapter 240: ‘Crying for a happier life’
Chapter 241: The Emergency
Chapter 242: The blitz and after
Chapter 243: The inter-party government
Chapter 244: The Mother and Child crisis
Chapter 245: ‘What we have we hold’
Chapter 246: The vanishing Irish
Chapter 247: The years of stagnation
Chapter 248: Church and state and the IRA
Chapter 249: New brooms north and south
Chapter 250: The O’Neill–Lemass meeting, 14 January 1965
Epilogue
References
Bibliography
Copyright
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