The Oxford History of Ireland by R F Foster
Wide-ranging and challenging, this balanced account of Irish history traces over 2000 years of turbulent change from the earliest prehistoric communities and Christian settlements to the present day. Religious confrontation and the emergence of the political issues at the root of the current "Troubles" are among the topics raised, while there is also a special section devoted to the island's language and literature.Roy Foster was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1949 and educated in Ireland and in the United States. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a Foundation Scholar in History, he subsequently became Professor of Modern British History at Birkbeck College, University of London, as well as
holding visiting fellowships at St Anthony's College, Oxford, the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, and Princeton University. In 1991 he became the first Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy since 1989. His previous
books include Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and His Family (1976), Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life (1981), Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (1988), The Sub-Prefect Should Have Held His Tongue: Selected Essays of Hubert Butler (1990), Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History
(1993), and W. B. Yeats: The Apprentice Mage Vol. I (1997).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192852717 |
| ISBN 10 | 019285271X |
| Title | The Oxford History of Ireland |
| Author | R F Foster |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1992-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 359 |
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