Irish History

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Walter Maclean's Irish trilogy covers Ireland from the Cromwellian Invasion up to the Easter of 1916.

Historical fiction but wonderfully informative.

>>8605939
Phone autocorrect me.
It's Walter MACKEN

bump for interest

"The history and social influence of the Potato" by Redcliffe Salaman. I read it this summer, very interesting book. Starts off slow since it's frontloaded with stuff about potato types, but the stuff about how it impacted life in Ireland and Scotland is fascinating.

>>8605696
finnegan's wake

>>8605696
Dubliners by James Joyce

>>8605696
Ulysses. Obviously.

>>8605696
A Modest Proposal

>>8605696
If you want an academic social history of the 20th century, Diarmaid Ferriter. If you want a political history from a popular nationalist perspective, one of Tim Pat Coogan's things.

the book of invasions

>>8605696
That book by Thomas Keneally, something like the Great Shame or along those lines.

My biggest problem with irish history as a rule is that nobody ever reads anything about Ireland pre Engish colonisation.

Whenever people ask for a history of Ireland all you get are Anglo-Irish relations books. The Island had a long and rich history before that.

>>8606528
There are plenty of good books about early christian Ireland, but fuck all about pre-christian Ireland in my experience.

>>8606546

I can forgive that to an extent because those books are relying primarily on archaeological evidence. Blessus we weren't good at writing things down.