Material type: BookPublisher: Dundonald, Belfast, Northern Ireland :Blackstaff Press,1992Description: x, 914 p : maps ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0856404667 ; 0856404764; 0856404985 (limited ed.).Subject(s): Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- HistoryDDC classification: 941.6
Contents:
Early Ulster c. 7000 BC - AD 800 -- Viking Raids and Norman Invasion c. 800-1300 -- Province Beyond the Pale c. 1300-1558 -- The Elizabethan Conquest c. 1558-1603 -- The Plantation of Ulster 1603-1685 -- King William's War and Peace 1685-1750 -- Prosperity, Revolution and Reaction c. 1750-1800 -- Progress and Poverty c. 1800-1850 -- Imperial Bastion c. 1850-1890 -- The Ulster Crisis 1890-1920 -- Partitioned Province: The Early Years 1920-1939 -- Wartime Ulster 1939-1945 -- The Quiet years 1945-1963 -- The O'Neill Era 1963-1972 -- Direct Rule 1972-1992.
Bibliography: (pages 865-878) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 837-863).
Early Ulster c. 7000 BC - AD 800 -- Viking Raids and Norman Invasion c. 800-1300 -- Province Beyond the Pale c. 1300-1558 -- The Elizabethan Conquest c. 1558-1603 -- The Plantation of Ulster 1603-1685 -- King William's War and Peace 1685-1750 -- Prosperity, Revolution and Reaction c. 1750-1800 -- Progress and Poverty c. 1800-1850 -- Imperial Bastion c. 1850-1890 -- The Ulster Crisis 1890-1920 -- Partitioned Province: The Early Years 1920-1939 -- Wartime Ulster 1939-1945 -- The Quiet years 1945-1963 -- The O'Neill Era 1963-1972 -- Direct Rule 1972-1992.
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CHOICE Review
Bardon's impressive and massive narrative history immediately becomes the best work available for understanding the problems of Northern Ireland in their historical context. Nearly half the 830 pages of text deals with Northern Ireland--six of the nine counties of the traditional province of Ulster--since the partition of Ireland in 1920-21. Because Bardon's book covers events up to 1992, it must be recommended over Patrick Buckland's A History of Northern Ireland (1981). Bardon writes well, effectively sprinkling his text with striking quotes from primary sources to illustrate his points. He is remarkably nonpartisan and fair-minded in his analyses; though Irish nationalists will probably claim a Protestant/pro-British leaning, the book is neither intrusive nor distorting. Highly recommended. General; undergraduate; graduate. J. W. Auld; California State University, Dominguez Hills
Booklist Review
The sectarian vendetta whose current virulence filled 800 pages of The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-92 by J. Bowyer Bell seems positively traditional when backlit by a millennium of Anglo-Irish antagonism. Bardon judiciously collects and synthesizes a mountain of sources to show that today's mayhem proximates from James I, who planted Scottish Protestants in Ulster, a status enforced with the sword by Cromwell and William of Orange, whose victory in the Battle of the Boyne (1690) still sparks marches and murders. Bardon goes further back, to the Celts, Romans, Vikings, and Christians who intruded on the land, and beneath these sagas of bellicosity he always pauses for economic and social trends important to the province. Politics yet permeates all, illustrated by the home rule crises from 1800 to the present. Partisans under any banner, Orange, Green, or Union Jack, will be hard put to find any bias in this entirely sober-minded, comprehensive study--except an understated contempt for terrorists. (Reviewed July 1993)0856404667Gilbert Taylor
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BookPublisher: Dundonald, Belfast, Northern Ireland : Blackstaff Press, 1992Description: x, 914 p : maps ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0856404667 ; 0856404764; 0856404985 (limited ed.).Subject(s): Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- History