Tobin Fergal
Tobin Fergal - The Irish Difference The Story Of Ireland's 400 - Year Journey To Independence - Paperback
Tobin Fergal - The Irish Difference The Story Of Ireland's 400 - Year Journey To Independence - Paperback
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Description: An Irish T Imes Book of the Year The beauty of this book is in the telling: The Irish Difference lays out its themes and chronologies with impeccable clarity and is full of fascinating detail Exemplary. Irish Independent For hundreds of years the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that over time suggested some movement towards political union. It was an uneven stop - start business and it worked better in some places than in others. Still England Wales and Scotland have hung together through thick and thin despite internal divisions of language religion law culture and disposition that might have broken up a less resilient polity. And for a long time it seemed that something similar might have been said about the smaller island to the west: Ireland. Ireland was always a more awkward fit in the London - centric mini - imperium but no one imagined that it might detach itself altogether until the moment came for rupture quite suddenly and dramatically in the fall - out from World War I. So what was it - is it - about Ireland that is so different? Different enough to sever historical ties of centuries with such sudden violence and unapologetic efficiency. Wherein lies the Irish difference a difference sufficient to have caused a rupture of that nature? In a wide - ranging and witty narrative historian Fergal Tobin looks into Ireland's past taking in everything from religion and politics to sports and literature and traces the roots of her journey towards independence.
Title: The Irish Difference The Story Of Ireland's 400 - Year Journey To Independence
Author(s): Tobin Fergal
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Barcode: 9781838952631
Pages: 320 Pages, 1x8pp B&W, 1x8pp Colour Plates
Publication Date: 6/20/2023
Category: Historical Geography
Description: An Irish T Imes Book of the Year The beauty of this book is in the telling: The Irish Difference lays out its themes and chronologies with impeccable clarity and is full of fascinating detail Exemplary. Irish Independent For hundreds of years the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that over time suggested some movement towards political union. It was an uneven stop - start business and it worked better in some places than in others. Still England Wales and Scotland have hung together through thick and thin despite internal divisions of language religion law culture and disposition that might have broken up a less resilient polity. And for a long time it seemed that something similar might have been said about the smaller island to the west: Ireland. Ireland was always a more awkward fit in the London - centric mini - imperium but no one imagined that it might detach itself altogether until the moment came for rupture quite suddenly and dramatically in the fall - out from World War I. So what was it - is it - about Ireland that is so different? Different enough to sever historical ties of centuries with such sudden violence and unapologetic efficiency. Wherein lies the Irish difference a difference sufficient to have caused a rupture of that nature? In a wide - ranging and witty narrative historian Fergal Tobin looks into Ireland's past taking in everything from religion and politics to sports and literature and traces the roots of her journey towards independence.
Title: The Irish Difference The Story Of Ireland's 400 - Year Journey To Independence
Author(s): Tobin Fergal
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Barcode: 9781838952631
Pages: 320 Pages, 1x8pp B&W, 1x8pp Colour Plates
Publication Date: 6/20/2023
Category: Historical Geography
