Modern Ireland 1600-1972

Quite heavy foxing on first and last few pages.

This account of Ireland from 1600 to 1972 is a dazzling description of that nation's tragedy, and of its resilience. A masterly survey not so much of the events of Irish history over the past four centuries as of the way in which those events acted upon the peoples living in Ireland to produce in our own time an `Irish Nation' that was at last politically something more than rhetoric - a brilliant if demanding performance and those with knowledge of Irish history will be dipping in and out of it for years to check with Foster's many incisive comments...