This definitive study of Ireland's transformation from a medieval to a modern society looks at the way in which the country's different religious groups, and nationalities, clashed and interacted during the transition. Charting its progression from a poor society on the periphery of Europe, dominated by the conflicts of competing warlords, to a centralised political unit with a rapidly developing market economy, it is the long and complex story of the people who became the modern Irish.
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This definitive study of Ireland's transformation from a medieval to a modern society looks at the way in which the country's different religious groups, and nationalities, clashed and interacted during the transition. Charting its progression from a poor society on the periphery of Europe, dominated by the conflicts of competing warlords, to a centralised political unit with a rapidly developing market economy, it is the long and complex story of the people who became the modern Irish.
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