Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922–2001The seminal history of Irelands most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium. With its starting point the bloody creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History explores how Irish identity has shifted across eighty years of unprecedented change and violence. What was the legacy of De Valera and Sinn Fein or of remaining neutral during the Second World War? What were the effects of the establishment