Introduction
About the author
Mesolithic Ireland
The Céide Fields
Newgrange
History and myth: Cùchulainn
The Celts
Dùn Aonghasa
The Broighter Hoard
Palladius: the 'first Patrick'
Patrick: myth and reality
Pilgrimage
'Saints and scholars'
Glendalough
Dal Riata
Colm Cille
Columbanus in Europe
The Irish language
Skellig Michael
The Viking presence
Dublin
Brian Boru
Laudabiliter
Invasion
Giraldus Cambrensis
A royal visit
Dublin Castle
The Bruce Invasion
The Statutes of Kilkenny
Reconquest
Surrender and Regrant
Trinity College Dublin
Kinsale
The Flight of the Earls
The Wild Geese
The Plantation of Ulster
The Walls of Derry
1641
Cromwell
A 'deluded and seduced people'
The Act of Settlement
The Big House
The Siege of Derry
Marsh's Library
The Royal Hospital
Georgian Dublin
Swift
The Irish Parliament
Irish Presbyterianism in America
The United Irishmen
1798
The Act of Union
Maria Edgeworth
Wellington
Moore's Melodies
Irish Lights
Emancipation
O'Connell and Repeal
The Great Hunger
The Famine and the Future
The Irish Diaspora
The Fenians
The Church Ascendant
The 'Irish Question'
The Revival
The Gaelic Athletic Association
The Abbey Theatre
Yeats and Joyce
Industrial Ulster
Titanic
The Ulster Covenant
A World at War
The Easter Rising
Collins and de Valera


The Treaty
Constance Markievicz
Civil War
In the Free State
De Valera's Ireland
The Jews of Ireland
Northern Ireland at War
Elizabeth Bowen
The 'Mother and Child' Scheme
The Islands of Ireland
Edna O'Brien
The Road to the Troubles
The Troubles
The Second 'Bloody Sunday'
Corncrake
Catholicism and Ireland
Incarceration
The Good Friday Agreement
Imperfect peace
Two Nobels
A Tiger and a Bail-Out
Two Referendums
Brexit and the future
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