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Introduction.Part I: Saints and Kings: Ireland’s Early Years.Chapter 1: No Man Is an Ireland.Chapter 2: The First People Arrive.Chapter 3: The Early Irish Kings.Chapter 4: Snakes Alive! Christianity Comes to Ireland.Part II: The Normans Are Coming! The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.Chapter 5: The Vikings Arrive First.Chapter 6: Irish vs. Norman Invaders . . . But Who’s in Charge?Chapter 7: Boy Meets Gael: The Norman–Irish Alliance.Part III: The Invading English Kings: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.Chapter 8: The Scottish–Irish Rebellion and its Aftermath.Chapter 9: From Richard II to Henry IV: More Turmoil in Ireland.Chapter 10: Family Feuds I: The Wars of the Roses.Part IV: Religious Wars and Family Feuds: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.Chapter 11: Popes vs. Archbishops: The Reformation and Ireland.Chapter 12: Religious Roundabouts and Irish Rebellion.Chapter 13: James I and the Plantations; Charles I and Chaos.Chapter 14: Family Feuds II and III: The English Civil War, then William and James.Part V: Catholic and Protestant: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.Chapter 15: Going Irish? Grattan’s Parliament and Wolfe Tone’s Rebellion.Chapter 16: Going British: The Act of Union.Chapter 17: Three Strikes for Irish Independence: O’Connell, Davis, and Mitchel.Chapter 18: The Great Hunger and the Land War.Chapter 19: The Fight Over Home Rule.Part VI: Divided in Two: Life from the 1880s.Chapter 20: Balls and Books in Irish: The Cultural Revival.Chapter 21: Fighting Against Britain: The Revolution.Chapter 22: One Land, Two Systems: Partition.Chapter 23: Troubles Begin Again . . . And Maybe Finish.Part VII: The Part of Tens.Chapter 24: Ten Top Turning Points.Chapter 25: Ten Major Documents.Chapter 26: Ten Things the Irish Have Given the World.Chapter 27: Ten Great Irish Places to Visit.Chapter 28: Ten Irish People Who Should Be Better Known.Index.