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What Happened Here? Ireland Knowledge Cards Deck
What Happened Here Ireland Knowledge Cards Deck Author:Pomegranate Reaching deep into prehistory and concluding with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, these cards unfold the glory and tragedy of Ireland s history. Author Jack Van Zandt surveys the chaos of Viking raids and that created by violent, ambitious regional kings; Brian Boru s defeat of the Vikings and the Anglo-Norman invasion that inaugurated eight ... more »hundred years of English dominion over the island; the struggle against economic and religious oppression, from Cromwell s slaughters through the Battle of the Boyne to the bloody revolutions of 1798 and 1916; and the mid-nineteenth-century famines that led so many to emigrate.
But What Happened Here? Ireland isn t all bad news. The reader will learn of the first performance of Handel s Messiah, in Dublin; of the establishment of Ireland s famed ceramic and textile industries (and her thriving Bronze Age copper works); of the ministries of Patrick and Columcille; and, of course, of the heroes O Connell, Tone, Pearse, Parnell, and others. This deck offers surprising depth for such a compact medium. Size: 3 1/4 x 4 inches.« less