Read The Story of Ireland: A History of the Irish People Online
Authors: Neil Hegarty
Tags: #Non-Fiction
Swiss Church
Sydney
Synge, John Millington
Tacitus
Táin
Talana Hill
“Tammany Hall”
Taoiseach
Tara
Tara Brooch
tariff walls
taxation
tenants’ rights
terror policies
Thatcher, Margaret
Theuderic
Three Kingdoms, war of the
Tiernan O’Rourke of Breifne
Times, The
(newspaper)
Tírechán
tithe
Tone, Theobald Wolfe
Tories
tories (Irish irregular army)
torture
towns, prototype
trade ix–x
Transvaal
treason
Treaty Ports
British evacuation 1938
Trinity
Trinity College, Dublin
and Chamberlain’s honorary doctorate
and the Easter rebellion 1916
and Emmet
foundation 1592
and the Irish Catholic Church
land
and Moore
Troy
Troy, John Thomas
túatha
(Irish kingdoms)
tuberculosis
Tudor dynasty
scorched-earth policy
twin towers attack, 2001
typhus
Uí Néill dynasty
uitlanders
Ulaid
Ulster
and the 1641 rising
and the 1798
rebellion
and Cromwell
and the Defenders
end to the political autonomy of
and famine
and Home Rule
and industrial growth
and loss of the Irish language
and Moran
and the Orange Order
partition
Plantation of
post-Tudor collapse
and potato blight
remodelling of the political landscape
St Patrick and
Scottish invasion
and the Second World War
Stuart
threat of the British army in
and the Troubles
Tudor
and the Union
Ulster Hall meeting, Belfast
Ulster Unionist Party
Ulster Unionists
and the Belfast Agreement 1998
Covenant
Dáil meetings
gain British support
and Home Rule
and partition
Ulster Volunteers
‘undertakers’
unemployment
Union army
Unionists
and the Anglo–Irish Agreement
and the Belfast Agreement
hegemony
middle-class ‘garden centre’
and Northern Ireland
and the post-war Atlee government
and the Second World War
and the Troubles
see also
Ulster
Unionists
United Irishman
(newspaper)
United Nations (UN)
United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
United States
agriculture
anti-slavery
and the Belfast Agreement 1998
and censorship
Connolly in
formation
funds to Ireland
Irish communities in
Irish migrants to
and Northern Ireland peace
and the Republic of Ireland
and the Second World War
United-States–Canadian frontier, Fenian raids along
University College, Dublin
Urban III, Pope
urbanization
Van Diemen’s Land
Van Morrison
Vatican Council
Victoria, Queen
Diamond Jubilee
Vikings
art
competitive culture
cultural mingling
towns
Vindicator
Vinegar Hill
Visigoths
Volunteer movement
Wales
Warbeck, Perkin
Warrenpoint
Washington, George
Waterford
Waterloo, Battle of
welfare provision
Wellesley, Arthur, first Duke of Wellington
wells, holy
West India Dock, London
Westminster
see also
British parliament; House of Commons; House of Lords
Westmorland, Lord
Westport
Wexford
Cromwellian attack on
rebellion 1798
Whigs
Whitehall
Wickham, William
Wicklow
Wild Geese
William I
William III
Williamites
Williams, Tennessee
Windsor, Treaty of
wishing trees
women
and the Easter Rising 1916
‘fallen’
health issues
in the Irish Free State
in the Irish Republic
and the penal laws
see also
Cumann na mBan
Woollen Act 1699
workhouses
written tradition/literacy
Wyndham, George
Wyndham Land Acts
Yeats, Jack B.
Yeats, William Butler
Yellow ford, battle of
York
York, House of
Youghal
Young Ireland movement
Rebellion 1848
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Pacata Hibernia
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Ptolemy’s
Geography
, compiled in the second century
AD
, charted the position of Ireland on the edge of the Roman world; this map is a thirteenth-century copy.
The opening page of Matthew’s Gospel in the
Book of Kells
. This famous illuminated manuscript is a dazzling example of early Irish art.
The national saint, captured in the stained glass of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Christianity had in fact taken root in the country well in advance of Patrick’s mission to Ireland, and his exalted status in history owes much to politics and to later hagiography.
Detail from the Ardagh Chalice, wrought in gold, bronze and silver. This treasure of early monastic Ireland was lost for centuries, before being rediscovered in 1868 in a County Limerick field.
The tomb of Columbanus at Bobbio, high in the Apennines of northern Italy. Columbanus founded monasteries across a swathe of western Europe; he died at Bobbio in November 615.