Product Description: This book presents a series of essays that examine the ideological, personal, and political difficulties faced by the group variously termed the Anglo-Irish, the Protestant Ascendancy, or the English in Ireland, a group that existed in a world of contested ideological, political, and cultural identities...read more

Product Description: A history of the headquarters of British rule in Ireland. Examines the social and ceremonial life of the Viceregal Court, and looks at the individuals who performed at the Castle from the onset of English administration until the transfer of power to Michael Collins and the government of the Irish Free State in 1922...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Change and Conflict is part of the Irish History in Perspective series of pupils' and teacher's books which will meet the requirements of the history curriculum for Northern Ireland at key stage 3. These specially-commissioned books allow pupils to understand how developments at a local, national and international level have helped to shape the economy, culture and political structure of Ireland...read more

Product Description: Strangers to that Land is a critical anthology of English, Scottish and Welsh colonists' and travelers' accounts of Ireland and the Irish from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, from the Reformation to the Famine. The anthology consists exclusively of eyewitness descriptions of Ireland given by writers using English who had never been to Ireland before and were seeing the country for the first time...read more