Ireland's Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation's Soul, 1500-2000 (Yale Nota Bene) by Marcus Tanner - 2003-01-27

Yale University Press, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback. Very Good.

New Haven, CT, U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 2003 1st Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Yale University Press. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Yale University Press, 2003. Softcover. Very Good. 5x1x7. In Very Good+ condition. In most accounts of Irish history, the focus is on the political rivalry between Unionism and Republicanism. But the roots of the Irish conflict are profoundly and inescapably religious. As Marcus Tanner shows in this vivid, warm, and perceptive book, only by understanding the consequences over five centuries of the failed attempt by the English to make Ireland into a Protestant state can the pervasive tribal hatreds of today be seen in context. Tanner traces the creation of a modern Irish national identity through the popular resistance to imposed Protestantism and the common defense of Catholicism by the Gaelic Irish and the Old English of the Pale, who settled in Ireland after its twelfth-century conquest.The book is based on detailed research into the Irish past and a personal encounter with today’s Ireland, from Belfast to Cork. Tanner has walked with the Apprentice Boys of Derry and explored… Read More

Yale University Press, 2003. Softcover (13 x 20 cm), x, 498 pages, with b&w photographs, map, notes to pages, bibliography and index. ISBN: 0300092814. Very Good condition. Pages tanning, foxing. Weight (before packaging): 425g

Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 2001. Soft cover. As New. (1500-2000) Larger softcover, glossy wrappers with beautiful color photo of cemetery with Celtic crosses at sunset on front wrapper, praise from Colm Toibin in New York Review of Books at top front, praise on back wrapper from Times Literary Supplement, the New Republic, Irish Independent, 498 pages plus illustrated section. Go raibh maith agat! Mint copy.

Yale Nona Bene 2003 . Paperback ISBN 0300092814 Covers are slightly rubbed at edges. A tight and clean book which looks little read. Illustrated. 498 pages Wt 0.55 Kg Very Good

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New. An analysis of the enduring conflict in Ireland. It contends that the roots of "the troubles" are inescapably religious and shows that the persistent conflict can only be understood in the context of five centuries of failed attempts by the English to impose Protestantism on the Irish state.