The Shaping of Modern Ireland Edited by Conor Cruise O'Brien (Signed and Inscribed by the Author) (HQ867)

Published 1970: Softcover / Very Good Condition / Signed and Inscribed by the Author

Original stiff card covers. 201 clean and bright pages, speckled foxing on the edges and endpapers. Slight shelf wear on covers and rubbed with time consistent with age. Scarce! (HQ887)

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Originally published in 1960 and edited by Conor Cruise O Brien, The Shaping of Modern Ireland was a seminal work surveying the lives of prominent early twentieth-century figures who influenced Irish affairs in the years between the death of Charles Stewart Parnell in 1891 and the Easter Rising of 1916. The chapters were written by leading historians and commentators from the Ireland of the 1950s, some of whom personally knew the subjects of their essays. Google Books...