A Short History of Ireland - Softcover

McMahon, Sean

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9780802313195: A Short History of Ireland

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ISBN 10: 0802313191 ISBN 13: 9780802313195

Publisher: Dufour Editions, 1996

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This concise and even-handed account gives the history of Ireland since the earliest times. It shirks nothing, exaggerates nothing. The heroes and villains are there, the former perhaps not so heroic, the others less evil than tradition has painted them. Based upon up-to-date research, the book covers fights and famines, country and town, Protestants and Catholics, Rome Rule and Home Rule, Church and State, and brings the account right up to the autumn of 1995 and the end of the first year of peace in Northern Ireland.

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About the Author:

Sean McMahon was born in Derry in 1931 and he educated at St Derry's Columb's College and in Queen's University in Belfast. He returned to Derry to teach in St Columb's and taught Mathematics until his retirement in 1988. During his teaching years he staged many productions of works by Shakespeare and modern dramatists both for St Columb's and for amateur theatre groups in Derry. He also wrote the lyrics for musical shows. His literary career properly began with his anthology The Best from the Bell, which was followed by A Book of Iirish Quotations and Rich and Rare, an anthology of prose and verse. Over the past twenty years he has written and edited dozens of books, including biographies of Ulster writers Sam Hanna Bell and Robert Lynd, the bestselling A Short History of Ireland and books on all aspects of Irish life and culture, including A Short History of Ulster, The Island of Saints and Scholars and Irish Names for Children.

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