Ireland

Robert Kee looks back across the whole of Ireland's past, starting from its earliest beginnings. He sets out the main communities and factions that have shaped the country and asks who they were.

The book follows how each group came into being and how their relationships with one another developed over the centuries. Along the way, it shows how particular events were misremembered and gradually hardened into myths that still carry weight today.

This revised edition brings the story up to date with recent events. It considers the country's current political situation, with particular attention to the 1994 ceasefire agreement.