The Irish Century: A Photographic History (The Hulton Getty picture collection) - Softcover

THE IRISH CENTURY brings to life a hundred years of Irish history with immediacy and clarity: the main protagonists from the mid 1850s (the earliest extant photographs) to 1910 were the Unionists comprising the old Protestant ascendancy, (the Anglo-Irish gentry) and the Northerners (the Protestants of all social classes in the rapidly industrializing North-East), and secondly, the Nationalists, both physical force men and Constitutionalists. Each grouping has formed and reformed, declined in influence or extended its constituency over the subsequent century to give an enduring shape to Irish politics. Major personalities, events, crises and triumphs are documented in this powerful book not just in the field of politics but also in art, culture and sport, and the traditions of the countryside.

Dr Michael MacCarthy Morrogh gained a First in History at Trinity College, Dublin and a doctorate from London University on THE MUNSTER PLANTATION 1583-1641 subsequently published by Oxford University Press. He has reviewed extensively for THE IRISH TIMES and lectured on Irish History at Concordia University, Quebec and Sussex University. He is currently Head of the History Department at Shrewsbury School. He is the author of THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY (Macmillan) and THE POLITICS GAME (Penguin).