Ireland Since the Famine

by F.S.L. Lyons

"...a full-scale study of the political and social history of Ireland from 1850 to the 1970s. The political evolution of the Irish nation forms the basis of the the state of the Union, the demands for Home Rule, the violence and the compromises ending in a divided Ireland, and the separate evolutions of Eire and Ulster."

Genres: History, Ireland, Nonfiction, Irish Literature

880 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Francis Stewart Leland Lyons FBA was an Irish historian and academic who served as the 40th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1974 to 1981. He was educated at Dover College in Kent and later attended The High School, Dublin. At Trinity College Dublin, he was elected a Scholar in Modern History and Political Science in 1943. Lyons was a lecturer in history at the University of Hull and then at Trinity College Dublin. He became the founding Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent in 1964, serving also as Master of Eliot College from 1969 to 1972.

Reviews

[Ash Shalvey-Phelan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would be worth five stars, except Lyons seem to think theres not even one woman in Ireland worth mentioning from the famine up to the present day.

[Julie Jameson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would like to re-read it as I read it in about 1992, and since then I have forgotten a lot of Irish History. I studied Irish/French Humanities for a Degree, and this was one of the course books. It is one of 2 books I have left of that period. it's pretty grubby looking and the print is small. I wonder if they do it in bigger print!!