a nation not a rabble
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Author_Diarmaid Ferriter
Belfast
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catholic
Dublin
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ira
Irish history
occasions of sin
protestant
sinn fein
taoiseach
the transformation of Ireland
the troubles
Product details
- ISBN 9781861974433
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 132 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2005
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A ground-breaking history of the twentieth century in Ireland, written on the most ambitious scale by a brilliant young historian.
It is significant that it begins in 1900 and ends in 2000 - most accounts have begun in 1912 or 1922 and largely ignored the end of the century. Politics and political parties are examined in detail but high politics does not dominate the book, which rather sets out to answer the question: 'What was it like to grow up and live in 20th-century Ireland'?
It deals with the North in a comprehensive way, focusing on the social and cultural aspects, not just the obvious political and religious divisions.
Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland's best-known historians and is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD. His books include The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004), Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the life and legacy of Eamon de Valera (2007), Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (2009) and Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (2012). His most recent book is A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23 (2015) He is a regular broadcaster on television and radio and a weekly columnist with the Irish Times. In 2010 he presented a three-part history of twentieth century Ireland, 'The Limits of Liberty', on RTE television.
