Modern Ireland 1600-1972

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'A work of gigantic importance. It is everything that a history book should be. It is beautifully and clearly written' it seeps wisdom through its every pore; it is full of the most elegant and scholarly insights; it is magnificently authoritative and confident . . . Modern Ireland is quite simply the single most important book on Irish history written in this generation . . . A masterpiece' Kevin Myers, Irish Times

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R.F. Foster is Carroll Professor of irish History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His books include Modern Ireland 1600-1972, The Irish Story and W. B. Yeats- A Life.