This up-to-date edition spans 9000 years of social, political and economic life in the province of Ulster, Northern Ireland. The book covers early settlements, the Viking and Norman invasions, the plantations and the Penal Laws, the rise of the United Irishmen and Orangeism, the Act of Union, emigration and the Great Famine, the linen industry and shipbuilding, the Home Rule Crisis and partition, civil rights and the turmoil of the current Troubles. The book is intended for student and general readers interested in the history of Ulster.
- ISBN10 0856405868
- ISBN13 9780856405860
- Publish Date November 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 February 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Colourpoint Creative Ltd
- Imprint Blackstaff Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English