From the Book - Rev. and enl. ed.
1. A geographer's view of Irish history.
3. Early Irish society (1st-9th century).
4. The beginnings of christianity (5th and 6th centuries).
5. The golden age of early christian Ireland (7th and 8th centuries).
6. The age of the Viking wars (9th and 10th centuries).
7. Ireland in the eleventh and twelfth centuries (c. 1000-1169).
8. The Normans: arrival and settlement (1169-c. 1300).
9. The medieval English colony (13th and 14th centuries).
10. The Gaelic resurgence and the Geraldine supremacy (c. 1400-1534).
11. The Tudor conquest (1534-1603).
12. The colonisation of Ulster and the rebellion of 1641 (1603-60).
13. The Restoration and the Jacobite war (1660-91).
14. The age of the penal laws (1691-1778).
15. The protestant nation (1775-1800).
16. The age of Daniel O'Connell (1800-47).
17. The great famine (1845-1850).
18. Fenianism, home rule, and the land war (1850-91).
19. From Parnell to Pearse (1891-1921).
20. Northern Ireland, 1921-66.
21. The Irish free state and the Republic of Ireland, 1921-66.
