Ireland’s History Gets a Fast, Fractured Reframing
Irish history feels brisk here without being flattened into easy answers. James Hawes places Ireland in a wider British and European frame, giving curious readers an accessible route through familiar arguments and less familiar connections without homework energy. Its speed becomes part of the appeal.
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Ireland’s History Gets a Fast, Fractured Reframing
Irish history feels brisk here without being flattened into easy answers. James Hawes places Ireland in a wider British and European frame, giving curious readers an accessible route through familiar arguments and less familiar connections without homework energy. Its speed becomes part of the appeal.
- Book Synopsis
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James Hawes’s The Shortest History of Ireland is based at every step on the latest scholarship, but it’s all brought together, for once, as a fluent story, as captivating as a novel, galloping from the Ice Age to the present, using language, graphics and images accessible to all.
It will change the way people see the Irish past, flipping usual practice on its head and placing Ireland at the centre not just of Irish but British and at times even European history.
Hawes concludes by arguing that if Ireland can now sidestep the last, toxic wreckage of the British Empire, its eventful past will flow into a bright future.
From the bestselling author of The Shortest History of Germany and The Shortest History of England, this is popular history at its thrilling best.
Ideal for readers who:
- Need a fast, accessible route through Irish history from deep past to today.
- Enjoy scholarship translated into a fluent story rather than a dense textbook.
- Explore Ireland in relation to Britain, Europe and empire.
- Appreciate popular history with pace, argument and clear visual support.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781913083366
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing, (03 March 2026)
- Weight
- 390 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 225 x 145 x 30 mm
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