Irish History

Curiously, despite the many volumes of Irish History that have been written, there is a great deal of it still being published. Beginning with Early Christian Ireland, through Viking, Norman, Tudor, and Williamite Ireland there are new studies being published on a monthly basis. There have been major advances made in the study of Early and Late Medieval Ireland as well as early Modern Ireland. It would seem that the "Irish Question" as it became called, came into being during the Eighteenth Century, a period that was also the golden era of the Ascendancy and resulted in the grandeur of Georgian Ireland. This was followed by the great Rebellion of 1798, the Act of Union, the Emmett Rebellion and then the Nineteenth Century was on its way.

The Famine proved to be Ireland's holocaust, and from it Modern Ireland grew through the Fenian Rising, the Land War and the 1916 Rising. There are many facets of Twentieth Century Ireland being studied and contant new titles are appearing relating to the growth of the Free State and its counterpart, the North of Ireland. All of this leads to a fascinating field of reading and research, all readily available from our website.

For a more specific look at Irish Archaeology, please go to our Archaeology section.