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| ISBN-13: | 9780717180592 |
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| Publisher: | Gill Books |
| Publication date: | 04/21/2019 |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.20(d) |
Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Episode 1 The Classical World learns about Scotland and Ireland 1
Episode 2 Agricola, Caledonia and Hibernia 3
Episode 3 'Loathsome hordes of Scots and Picts' 5
Episode 4 Dalriada 7
Episode 5 The Dove of the Church 10
Episode 6 Iona 12
Episode 7 Vikings 14
Episode 8 Cináaed mac Ailpín, the Kingdom of Alba and the Stone of Scone 17
Episode 9 The eastern coastlands of the Narrow Sea: Norman infiltration 19
Episode 10 The western coastlands of the Narrow Sea: Norman conquest 21
Episode 11 De Courcy and de Lacy 23
Episode 12 The Earldom of Ulster 25
Episode 13 Normans making their home in Scotland and Ireland 27
Episode 14 The Red Earl and the 'Hammer of the Scots' 29
Episode 15 Robert the Bruce takes refuge on Rathlin 31
Episode 16 The road to Bannockburn and Larne 33
Episode 17 'Wasting and ravaging': Edward Bruce in Ireland 35
Episode 18 'In this Bruce's time … falsehood and famine and homicide filled the country' 38
Episode 19 Hebridean warriors: gallóglaigh seek their fortunes across the Narrow Sea 40
Episode 20 From the Isles to the Glynns: the rise of Clan Donald 42
Episode 21 How did Dalriada, the Mounth, Galloway, Twescard, the Route and the Glynns get so called? 44
Episode 22 'Daunting the Isles': the road to Harlaw 47
Episode 23 Donal Ballach MacDonnell, the Glensman who led the Islanders to victory at Inverlochy in 1431 49
Episode 24 Pibroch of Donuil Dhu 'The war-pipe and pennon, Are at Inverlochy' 51
Episode 25 'Daunting the Isles': the fall of Clan Donald 53
Episode 26 'Surrounded by Irish and Scots … without succour of the English for sixty miles' 55
Episode 27 Lords of Tír Chonaill, allies of the King of Scots 57
Episode 28 1513: James IV and Hugh Dubh O'Donnell make a pact 59
Episode 29 1513: a Scots naval assault on Carrickfergus 61
Episode 30 1513: The Battle of Flodden 63
Episode 31 'The reek of Maister Patrik Hammyltoun': the Scottish Reformation begins 65
Episode 32 Success for the Protestant reformers in Scotland 67
Episode 33 'Such mirrours of holiness and austeritie'; the Reformation resisted in Gaelic Ulster 69
Episode 34 'A heresy and a new error': the Reformation's failure in Ulster 72
Episode 35 Mary Queen of Scots and her son James VI 74
Episode 36 James VI and the mission to the Gaidhealtacht 76
Episode 37 The MacDonnells and the 'cankred dangerous rebel', Shane O'Neill 77
Episode 38 'They be occupied still in killing': a massacre on Rathlin 79
Episode 39 'this Scottish woman will make a new Scotland of Ulster': Sir John Perrot's 'rash, unadvised journeys' 82
Episode 40 Gaelic Ulster defiant 84
Episode 41 'We spare none of what quality or sex soever' 86
Episode 42 Randal MacDonnell, the great survivor in a time of defeat, destruction and conquest 88
Episode 43 The escape of Conn O'Neill 90
Episode 44 'Parishes more wasted than America' 93
Episode 45 'Every Body was innocently busy': colonising Down 95
Episode 46 Planting the Isles with 'answerable In-lands subiects' 97
Episode 47 Colonising County Antrim 99
Episode 48 The Flight of the Earls 101
Episode 49 The Rebellion of Sir Cahir O'Doherty 104
Episode 50 Inviting Scots to plant 106
Episode 51 Making Ulster Visible - a civilising enterprise which would 'establish the true religion of Christ among men almost lost in superstition' 108
Episode 52 The Printed Book 110
Episode 53 'Make speed, get thee to Ulster' 112
Episode 54 'Great things move slowly' 114
Episode 55 Borderers: 'a fractious and naughty people' 116
Episode 56 'Poisoned with Popery': Strabane a refuge for Scottish Catholics 118
Episode 57 Smouldering resentment 120
Episode 58 The Eagle Wing and the Black Oath 122
Episode 59 The 1641 Massacres and after 125
Episode 60 A New Sunshine of Liberty? 127
Episode 61 'Seven Ill Years' 129
Episode 62 Scots 'are coming over here daily' 131
Episode 63 Hans Sloane 133
Episode 64 John Toland, the champion of freethinkers 135
Episode 65 'Jet-black Prelatic Calumny' 137
Episode 66 Flaxseed 139
Episode 67 'Like a contagious distemper' 141
Episode 68 'In America they may get good land' 143
Episode 69 The dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment 145
Episode 70 'The pursuit of happiness': Francis Hutcheson and his legacy 147
Episode 71 'It is to Scotland that we look for our idea of civilisation' 149
Episode 72 'A good wheen of ingens' 151
Episode 73 'The pleasantness of this solitary wilderness' 154
Episode 74 'our cause we leave to Heaven and our rifles' 156
Episode 75 'An Irish-Scotch Presbyterian Rebellion' 158
Episode 76 Charles Thomson: 'He who speaks the truth' 160
Episode 77 'We seek for our Rights' 163
Episode 78 'A cordial union'? 165
Episode 79 'Every man with his destroying weapon in his hand' 167
Episode 80 A young eyewitness on the eve of battle: Ballynahinch, 12 June 1798 169
Episode 81 'Negotiating and jobbing': the Union 171
Episode 82 Mary Ann McCracken: revolutionary, radical and tireless activist 173
Episode 83 The Rhyming Weavers 176
Episode 84 Sarah Leech, a flax-spinning poet in Donegal 179
Episode 85 New Light versus Old Light 181
Episode 86 'Mr. O'Connell, look at Belfast, and be a Repealer - if you can' 183
Episode 87 'Swarming with vagrants from the sister kingdom' 185
Episode 88 'Old Hickory' and the 'Trail of Tears' 187
Episode 89 Divided loyalties: the Scotch-Irish and the American Civil War 189
Episode 90 'A second Belfast of the whole province': Canada 192
Episode 91 An Industrial Hub: Belfast and Glasgow 194
Episode 92 A new life in Scotland: navvies and miners 196
Episode 93 'The death rate from chest affections is very high': harsh working conditions 199
Episode 94 Orange and Green in Scotland 201
Episode 95 'This Hibernian invasion has … stamped its impress on the country' 203
Episode 96 'Rabbles': the hiring fairs of Ulster 205
Episode 97 Tattie Hokers: Donegal migrant workers in Scotland 207
Episode 98 Paddy 'the Cope' Gallagher crosses over to Scotland 209
Episode 99 Industrial Might … in Ulster … 211
Episode 100 … and Industrial Might in Scotland 213
Episode 101 'You and I are just about fit to mend his pens': William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, scientific genius 216
Episode 102 A question of identity: the Ulster crisis and after 218
Episode 103 A Scottish radical's road to an Irish revolution: James Connolly 220
Episode 104 War, industrial unrest and intercommunal conflict: Scotland and Ulster 1914-21 223
Episode 105 Troubles: political, sectarian and industrial 225
Episode 106 'What about the 78,000 unemployed who are starving?': the Belfast Outdoor Relief riots of 1932 228
Episode 107 Two disasters: Arranmore and Kirkintillock 230
Episode 108 From peace to war 232
Episode 109 The Blitz 234
Episode 110 Arsenals of victory 236
Episode 111 Better times in Scotland … 239
Episode 112 … and better times in Northern Ireland 241
Episode 113 The Princess Victoria Disaster 245
Episode 114 'I hoist my swag on my back': Australia 248
Episode 115 New Zealand: an Ulster plantation at Katikati 250
Episode 116 'O yes, Hibernians, I beheld the Bard' 252
Episode 117 Bluegrass: 'played from my heart to your heart' 255
Episode 118 The Old Firm 257
Episode 119 The Hamely Tongue 260
Episode 120 Epilogue 262
References 268
Bibliography 276
Index 284