A Traveller's History of Ireland (Traveller's Histories)

A Traveller's History of Ireland (Traveller's Histories) by Neville, Peter. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781566565035.

A Travellers History of Ireland gives a full and accurate portrait of Ireland from its prehistory right up to the present. The story opens with mysterious, early Celtic Ireland where no Roman stood, through Saint Patricks mission to Ireland, which began the process of making it "an island of saints, " to the legendary high King Brian Boru and his struggle with Viking and Irish enemies alike. It moves on through the arrival of the Norman "Strongbow" in the twelfth century, and the beginnings of the difficult and tragic Anglo-Irish relationship. The book then proceeds into modern times with the great revolts of 1798 and the horrors of the potato famine, and it ends with a description of modern Ireland and of its two separate Catholic Nationalist and Protestant Unionist traditions.