Eyeitness to Irish History [Hardcover]

Through sources ranging from ancient forsundun (praise songs) and the hero kings to newspaper accounts, public decrees, and even graffiti, this book offers vivid portraits of major events and everyday life in Ireland through the centuries—beginning with Golamh, the legendary leader of the band of Iberian Celts who settled the island more than three thousand years ago, and concluding with gripping accounts by those on both sides of the bloody civil conflict in Northern Ireland.

* “This splendid book is an antidote to the antinationalist revisionism…” (Irish Democrat, Oct/Nov 2004)

“Unsurprisingly there is an awful lot of gunpowder, rapiers, pikes, musket balls and more recent technologies of killing…” (Belfast Telegraph, 8 May 2004)

“… a goldmine of information… As a starting point for students and the general reader, this book can’t be criticised.” (The Herald(Glasgow), 1 May 2004)