Product Description

'I recommend this book as pure pleasure' says Molly Keane 'I found myself ecstatically immersed in the most entertaining and fascinating book I have read for a long time'. Having traced the origins of the Anglo-Irish, the author offers a colourful account of the rise and sudden disappearance of the Protestant oligarchy that dominated Irish life from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and a general survey of Irish history.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #628528 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author
Michael McConville read Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin. He is married with six grown-up children and currently lives in Somerset.