A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes Kids25 Simon Schatz

Simon Schatz

it teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive

change our lives

This best-selling guide is concise and practical

delicately-woven account of coming to terms with a complicated past

A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes Kids25 Simon SchatzJonathan Bardon covers all the obvious things: the invasions, battles, development of towns and cities, the Reformation, the Georgian era, the Famine, rebellions and resistance, the difference of Ulster, partition, the twentieth century. What makes his book so valuable, however, are the quirky subjects he chooses to illustrate how history really works: the great winter freeze of 1740 and the famine that followed; crime and duelling; an emigrant