New York Times best-selling author Malachy McCourt offers an authoritative and engrossing one-volume chronicle of Ireland from pre-Christian times to the present, told with Irish flair by the gifted storyteller. The pages are populated with figures from myth, history, and the present, from Saint Patrick to Oliver Cromwell, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Charles Parnell, to Sinead O'Connor and Bono. Some beloved, some controversial-each influenced the course of Irish and world history. While McCourt vividly describes Ireland's turbulent history, he also offers a cultural survey with fresh insights to the folklore, literature, art, music, and cuisine of Ireland, producing an irresistible tour through the Emerald Isle.
- ISBN10 0762431814
- ISBN13 9780762431816
- Publish Date 29 January 2008 (first published 7 September 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Running Press Adult
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 432
- Language English