The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923

Second revised edition of this masterly history of a troubled land. "The presentation is not only learned but cool, objective, unimpassioned and yet almost always alive and compassionate as well...As a reference book alone it is immensely valuable...As an example of a humane, scholarly, expert history, Professor Beckett's book will be difficult to surpass." D. B. Quinn in The Belfast Telegraph. 519 pages with index and maps.