Ireland, Land of Troubles A History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day
by Paul Johnson
Traces the important social, religious and political developments of Ireland's struggle to become a unified, settled country. Johnson describes with detail Ireland's barbarous beginnings, Oliver Cromwell's religious "crusade, " the tragic Irish potato famine, the Ulster resistance and the outstanding fact of the constant British-Irish connection and the fearful toll of life it exacted.
HistoryEuropeIreland
RELEASED1982
PUBLISHERHolmes and Meier
LENGTH224
LANGUAGEEN
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Paul Bede Johnson is an English journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for and later editing the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. His first book, about the Suez War, appeared in 1957. He was successively lead writer, deputy editor and editor of the New Statesman magazine from 1965 to 1970. Source: Wikipedia
Ireland, Land of Troubles A History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day
by Paul Johnson
Traces the important social, religious and political developments of Ireland's struggle to become a unified, settled country. Johnson describes with detail Ireland's barbarous beginnings, Oliver Cromwell's religious "crusade, " the tragic Irish potato famine, the Ulster resistance and the outstanding fact of the constant British-Irish connection and the fearful toll of life it exacted.
HistoryEuropeIreland
RELEASED1982
PUBLISHERHolmes and Meier
LENGTH224
LANGUAGEEN
Paul Bede Johnson is an English journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for and later editing the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. His first book, about the Suez War, appeared in 1957. He was successively lead writer, deputy editor and editor of the New Statesman magazine from 1965 to 1970. Source: Wikipedia
