Download or read book Spotlights on Irish History written by Brendan Clifford and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is based on discussions held at a series of meetings on historical subjects by the Aubane Historical Society under the auspices of the Duhallow Heritage Centre, in Newmarket, County Cork during the 1990s. The discussions at the eight meetings amounted to something approaching a history of Ireland from the 1640s to the 1920s. The Williamite conquest is the only substantial gap. The book examines the major personalities, movements and events through which Ireland developed from what Pearse called a mob into a nation.