Brady, Ciaran / O’Dowd, Mary / Walker, Brian (Editors).

Ulster – An Illustrated History. Foreword by J.C. Beckett.

London, B.T. Batsford ltd., 1989. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 256 pages. 64 black and white photographs and 10 maps. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition. As new.

During the present century, ‘Ulster’ has come to signify the six counties of present day Nrothern Ireland. Historic Ulster, however, was one of the four provinces of Ireland embracing in addition the counties of Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan. This concise account traces the long and varied history of the region, from the pre-Norman Celtic period to the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1986. (From front flap)

Includes for example the following essays: Ulster Before the Normans: Ancient Myth and Early History / Sixteenth-Century Ulster and the Failure of Tudor Reform / The Political Economy of Linen: Ulster in the Eighteenth Century / Northern Ireland: From Birth Pangs to Disintigration, 1920 -1972 etc.

• Keywords: Anglo-Irish Agreement · Anglo-Irish History · Anglo-Irish War · Good Friday Agreement · IRA · Ireland · Ireland – History – 20th century – 1914-1921 · Ireland – Politics and government – 1910-1921. · Ireland — History — Partition, 1921. · Ireland, Northern · RUC · UDA
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713462396
• Inventory Number: 60208AB

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