ISBN10: 0952108151, ISBN13: 9780952108153, [publisher: Aubane Historical Society, Millstreet] Softcover Scarce paperback, 172pp, NOT ex-library. Weight: 210g / 7.4oz. Clean and bright interior with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Firm secure binding. Cover shows shelfworn marks, fingermarks, minor creasing; a small gentle stain on lower rear panel. -- The book looks at major personalities, movements and events through which Ireland developed from what Pearse called a "mob" into a nation. Brendan Clifford, at a series of meetings held in his native Slieve Luacra, looked over the past from the standpoint of the present. Slieve Luacra is a region in which, amidst all the "revisionist" undermining, the past has held firm enough to make this possible. The book consists of accounts of those meetings, the discussions as well as the opening talks. The participants in those history meetings were not academics doing what they were paid for. They were farmers, workers, business people and teachers who had done their day's work and were at the meetings on the basis of sheer interest. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Confederation of Kilkenny and the Battles of Knocknanoss and Knockbrack [A Perfect Narrative of the Battle of Knocknones. (1647); A Letter from Lord Broghill to. Parliament. (1657); How Not to Write the History of Ireland (Roy Foster on Confederation)]; Edmund Burke & The United Irishmen: Their Relevance in Ireland ...

Aubane Historical Society 1997 paperback Good Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.