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Geschiedenisboeken, Ierland, Ierse geschiedenis

Jonathan Bardon – A Short History of Ulster

Jonathan Bardon A Short History of Ulster review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de oude provincie in Ierland. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Gill Books de heruitgaven van het standaardwerk van de Ierse historicus Jonathan Bardon over de geschiedenis van Ulster. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Jonathan Bardon A Short History of Ulster review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van A Short History of Ulster, het boek over de geschiedenis oorspronkelijke provincie in Ierland, geschreven door historicus Jonathan Bardon, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Jonathan Bardon A Short History of Ulster

A Short History of Ulster

  • Auteur: Jonathan Bardon (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van Ulster
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Gill Books
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 408 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: € 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van Ulster

A shortened version of Jonathan Bardon’s definitive tome, A History of Ulster, this book provides a comprehensive account of the province from the earliest settlements nine thousand years ago to the turmoil of the Troubles, and the fragile peace period that followed. A preface from the author includes the peace process that saw the region emerge from thirty years of brutal conflict.

Covering social, political and economic life in the province, the book explores the Viking and Norman invasions, the plantations and the Penal Laws, the rise of the United Irishmen and Orangeism, the Act of Union, emigration and the Great Famine, the linen industry and shipbuilding, and the Home Rule Crisis and partition, right through to civil rights, the turmoil of the Troubles and the period of peace that has followed.

Lavishly illustrated throughout, this accessible edition takes its place alongside Jonathan Bardon’s hugely popular A History of Ireland in 100 Episodes.

Dr Jonathan Bardon was born in Dbulin in 1941. He is a former lecturer at Queens University, Belfast, was the author of numerous works of Irish historiography. In 2002, he was awarded an OBE for his ‘services to community life’ in Northern Ireland. Jonathan died 21 April 2020 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, aged 78.

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Angela Graham – A City Burning

Angela Graham A City Burning recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de verhalenbundel. Op 21 oktober2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Seren Books de verhalenbundel van de Welsh filmmaker en schrijfster Angela Graham.

Angela Graham A City Burning Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de verhalenbundel A City Burning. Het boek is geschreven door Angela Graham. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van het boek met twintig verhalen van de filmmaker en schrijfster uit Wales Angela Graham.

Angela Graham A City Burning.

A City Burning

  • Schrijfster: Angela Graham (Wales)
  • Soort boek: verhalen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Seren Books
  • Verschijnt: 21 oktober 2020
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Paperback

Flaptekst van de verhalenbundel van Angela Graham

In the twenty-six stories in A City Burning, set in Wales, Northern Ireland and Italy, children and adults face, in the flames of personal tragedy, moments of potential transformation. On the threshold of their futures each must make a choice: how to live in this new ‘now’. Some of these moments occur in mundane circumstances, others amidst tragedy or drama.

Waiting for the return of demoralized prisoners of war, an Italian is offered a shocking way to rebuild his world; on the Antrim coastline a man is pushed to the edge by the demons of his neurotic family; in the south Wales valleys during the pandemic a domiciliary carer flounders in the front line of the workers’ struggle. A teenager disheartened by a Covid future; a terrorist in love; a vindictive clergyman; an actor interrogating her role for light on her own hampered life. They are ordinary people caught at crisis point, each rendered with a fierce perception of injustice and brutality.

But there is lyricism too, wry humour and a sharp engagement with language – Italian, Ulster Scots, Welsh. As well as meeting protagonists in their own countries, we find the Irish in Italy, the Italians in Wales, the Welsh in Northern Ireland.

A cinematic sense of focus and place grounds the action: a dry-as-dust bookshop provides a sensual encounter stimulated by the dead; two young priests in a Vatican kitchen collide erotically; nemesis strikes − from the skies − in a hospital corridor.

With a virtuoso control of tone, by turns elegiac, comic, lyrical, philosophical, A City Burning examines power of all types, exploring conflicts between political allegiances; between autonomy and intimacy; emotional display and concealment; resistance versus acceptance. The result is a deeply human book full of hauntingly memorable characters and narratives.

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