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Modern Ireland 1600-1972
  • Published: 29 March 1990
  • ISBN: 9780140132502
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $50.00

Modern Ireland 1600-1972

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A history of Ireland from 1600 to 1972; an account not only of the events themselves but also the way in which those events acted upon the peoples living in Ireland to produce an 'Irish Nation'; a description of that nation's tragedy and resilience.
  • Published: 29 March 1990
  • ISBN: 9780140132502
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $50.00

About the authors

R F Foster

R. F. Foster was the Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His books include Modern Ireland 1600–1972, Paddy and Mr Punch, The Irish Story, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, W. B. Yeats, Volume II: The Arch-Poet and Luck and the Irish. Foster was awarded an Irish Presidential Distinguished Service Award in Arts, Culture & Sport in 2021, and received the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2023.
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