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What if Ireland's story was never about luck at all? Behind the green hills and pub songs lies a history carved from Viking axes, colonial scorched earth, and hunger graves. This book rips away the clichés to reveal a land where druids performed human sacrifice, Norman warlords married into Gaelic families to seize kingdoms, and rebels faced firing squads singing songs of [...] prehistoric tombs at Newgrange to the guerrilla warfare of the 20th century, Ireland's full history unfolds without flinching. St. Patrick was enslaved by Irish pirates before returning to convert the island. Vikings turned Dublin into one of Europe's largest slave markets. Cromwell's forces carried out massacres at Drogheda while quoting Scripture. British landlords exported grain during the Great Famine while millions starved on rotting potatoes. The rebellions that defined the Irish spirit are here too: the 1798 uprising in Wexford, the Easter Rising of 1916, and the Black and Tans burning Cork while London looked the other [...] prehistoric druidic rituals and Viking slave markets to Cromwell's massacres, the Great Famine's political cruelty, and the Easter Rising.
What if Ireland's story was never about luck at all? Behind the green hills and pub songs lies a history carved from Viking axes, colonial scorched earth, and hunger graves. This book rips away the clichés to reveal a land where druids performed human sacrifice, Norman warlords married into Gaelic families to seize kingdoms, and rebels faced firing squads singing songs of [...] prehistoric tombs at Newgrange to the guerrilla warfare of the 20th century, Ireland's full history unfolds without flinching. St. Patrick was enslaved by Irish pirates before returning to convert the island. Vikings turned Dublin into one of Europe's largest slave markets. Cromwell's forces carried out massacres at Drogheda while quoting Scripture. British landlords exported grain during the Great Famine while millions starved on rotting potatoes. The rebellions that defined the Irish spirit are here too: the 1798 uprising in Wexford, the Easter Rising of 1916, and the Black and Tans burning Cork while London looked the other [...] prehistoric druidic rituals and Viking slave markets to Cromwell's massacres, the Great Famine's political cruelty, and the Easter Rising.
Details
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9783565076703
ISBN-10: 3565076704
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: de Haan, Auke
Hersteller: epubli
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Von/Mit: Auke de Haan
Artikel-ID: 134227635

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