Ireland and the Irish.
Author: DUFF, Charles.
London: Boardman, 1952. 288 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
CONTENTS:-
Preface.
PART I:
BACKGROUND.
I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Homeland. 2. The Desire to Please. 3. Character of the People. 4. The Social Classes.
II. THE CELTIC SETTLEMENT 1. A Land of Gods and Heroes: Prehistory. 2. The Celts become Irish: about 350 B.C. 3. The Irish become Saints and Scholars: from A.D. 432 onwards. 4. The Norsemen come and go: A.D. 800-1014. 5. Gaelic Society: 1,000 Years Ago.
III. ENGLISH INVASIONS AND SETTLEMENTS 1. The Anglo-Norman Invasion: 1172 onwards. 2. English Plantations and Settlements: 1553-1653. 3. Anglo-Ireland: Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 4. Northern Ireland and the Republic: Today. 5. The Resultant Miracle.
IV. LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE 1. Tradition and Return to Tradition. 2. The Great Cycles. 3. The Red Branch and Fenian Cycles.
V. THE MODERN MIND 1. The Irish Mind and the Ascendancy. 2. Renaissance. 3. Changing Face and Unchanging Mind.
PART II:
SEEING IRELAND
I. CONVENIENT CENTRES AND EAST COAST 1. Convenient Centres - Central Plain - Coastal Fringe. 2. Irish Language - Place-names. 3. English as Spoken in Ireland. 4. Dublin and the East Coast.
II. DONEGAL AND THE WEST 1. From Derry to Bundoran. 2. Sligo and Mayo. 3. Galway - the Aran Islands. 4. Connemara and the Joyce’s Country.
III. SOUTHERN COUNTIES 1. Limerick and the Shannon. 2. Killarney and Kerry. 3. Cork. 4. Waterford - Wexford - Other Centres.
IV. BORDERLINE INTERLUDE.
V. NORTHERN IRELAND OR THE SIX COUNTIES AREA 1. Belfast and Armagh. 2. Larne - Antrim Coast Road and Glens - Portrush. 3. Derry and Tyrone: Orange Day. 4. Enniskillen and the Erne Country.
APPENDIX: Some hints for prospective visitors to Ireland.
INDEX.
ISBN: None/Unknown
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