This volume addresses the political, cultural and economic dimensions of Irish life, presenting Ireland as a hybrid of cultures and peoples. Coverage includes:

This rich and readable history of modern Ireland covers the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural dimensions of the country's development from

This rich and readable history of modern Ireland covers the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural dimensions of the country's development from

Surveys the religious experience of the Irish people through the ages.

On the eve of the American Civil War, 1.6 million Irish-born people were living in the United States. The majority had emigrated to the major industrialised cit