A short, accessible and entertaining history from one of Ireland\"s best-loved writers, now updated to bring our country\"s story right up to date. It deals with prehistory, the Celts, Christianity, the Vikings, the Normans. The various......

It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable......