And so began the Irish Nation

Contents: Preface About the author: interview in History Ireland. Part I Historical Method: A word on words: definitions and clarifications Nationalism and historical scholarship in modern Ireland Revising Irish history. Part II Introduction: Nationality, national consciousness and nationalism in premodern Ireland. Part III Case Studies: The Tudor Reformation and revolution in Wales and Ireland: the origins of the British problem The beginnings of modern Ireland Native reaction to the westward enterprise: a case-study in Gaelic ideology Geoffrey Keating: apologist for Irish Ireland Patrick Sarsfield and the two Sieges of Limerick, 1690, 1691: was there a hero in the house?. Part IV Review Articles: The Elizabethans and the Irish: a muddled model The Ulster Rising of 1641. Part V Epilogue: Irish nationalism: an historical perspective. Part VI Appendix: Cromwellian reform and the origin of the Kildare rebellion A treatise for the reformation of Ireland 1554-55. Index

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