{"title":"Books by Richard Killeen","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780717139231","title":"A Short History of Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince its first publication in 1994 Richard Killeen’s Short History of Ireland has been widely accepted as the most accessible introduction to Irish history. It presents the history of Ireland in attractive double paged spreads, which can be quickly read to give an easy overview of the key events of Irish history. It is superbly illustrated with over 150 full colour photographs, paintings and drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past 10 years almost 150,000 copies have been sold in English, French and German language editions. This new edition brings the story up to date including the days of the Celtic Tiger and the Good Friday agreement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294968590709,"sku":"9780717139231","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780717139231_6569829c-ca33-42d2-8dc2-2bb6255fcf88.jpg?v=1786014986"},{"product_id":"9780717140831","title":"A Short History of the Irish Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act in 1914. By then, however, the Great War had broken out: the Act was suspended for the duration of the war, with the violent Ulster opposition to it still unresolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the war changed everything. Over thirty thousand Irish troops died. A radical nationalist minority rebelled against British rule at Easter 1916, an event that established itself as the foundation date of a new, more assertive nationalism. In 1918 Sinn Féin supplanted the old Nationalist party and formed its own assembly in Dublin. At the same time the IRA began an armed campaign against British Rule.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1922, Britain had withdrawn from twenty-six of the thirty-two counties of Ireland which now constituted the Irish Free State. The Ulster problem had, however, never been resolved. The result was partition and the establishment of two states on the island — something unthinkable fifteen years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe years of the Irish revolution were the crucible of modern Ireland. Richard Killeen’s authoritative survey of the period is an ideal introduction to this tumultuous time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296447836533,"sku":"9780717140831","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780717140831_83a213b6-73da-4600-8a6d-f171a5ec8cfd.jpg?v=1786014990"},{"product_id":"9781849014397","title":"A Brief History of Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIreland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for liberty. A Brief History of Ireland is the perfect introduction to this exceptional place, its people and its culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIreland has been home to successive groups of settlers - Celts,  Vikings, Normans, Anglo-Scots, Huguenots.  It has imported huge ideas, none bigger than Christianity which it then re-exported to Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the Tudor era it became the first colony of the developing English Empire.  Its fraught and sometimes brutal relationship with England has dominated its modern history. Killeen argues that religion was decisive in all this: Ireland remained substantially Catholic, setting it at odds with the larger island culturally, religiously and politically. But its own culture and identity have stayed strong, most obviously in literature with a magnificent tradition of writing from the Book of Kells to the modern masters: Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and Heaney.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308424507765,"sku":"9781849014397","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781849014397_78ea6542-f85e-42ba-a8d8-e3d2e082d90b.jpg?v=1786029041"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-richard-killeen.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}