A Narrow Sea
The Irish-Scottish Connection in 120 Episodes
Published on 26. October 2018
320 pages
978-0-7171-8060-8 (ISBN)
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Based on the popular BBC Radio Ulster series of the same name, A Narrow Sea traces the epic sweep of Ireland's relationship with Scotland, exploring the myriad connections, correlations, personalities and antagonisms that have, over the years, defined the relationship between these two spirited neighbours.
Roving freely across the centuries, from the first migrations of the regions' intrepid Mesolithic pioneers, to the grand colonial projects of the Vikings, Normans and Stuarts, this is the dramatic story of how one culture came to found two very different nations and, in doing so, project its influence as far afield as North America and Australasia.
In 120 brief and accessible episodes, A Narrow Sea offers a stirring and panoramic view of a connection that has shaped the course of history on both sides of the narrow sea.
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Jonathan Bardon is one of Ireland's most eminent historians. A former lecturer in History at Queens University, Belfast, he has presented several radio documentary series for BBC Ulster and is the author of numerous books now widely acknowledged as classic works of Irish historiography, including A History of Ulster (2001), The Plantation of Ulster (2011) and A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes (2008). In 2002, he was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his 'services to community life' in Northern Ireland. His most recent collaboration with Gill Books was 2015's Hallelujah, an account of how Handel's ground-breaking Messiah came to be debuted in Dublin.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Episode 1: The Classical World learns about Scotland and Ireland
- Episode 2: Agricola, Caledonia and Hibernia
- Episode 3: 'Loathsome hordes of Scots and Picts'
- Episode 4: Dalriada
- Episode 5: The Dove of the Church
- Episode 6: Iona
- Episode 7: Vikings
- Episode 8: Cináed mac Ailpín, the Kingdom of Alba and the Stone of Scone
- Episode 9: The eastern coastlands of the Narrow Sea: Norman infiltration
- Episode 10: The western coastlands of the Narrow Sea: Norman conquest
- Episode 11: De Courcy and de Lacy
- Episode 12: The Earldom of Ulster
- Episode 13: Normans making their home in Scotland and Ireland
- Episode 14: The Red Earl and the 'Hammer of the Scots'
- Episode 15: Robert the Bruce takes refuge on Rathlin
- Episode 16: The road to Bannockburn and Larne
- Episode 17: 'Wasting and ravaging': Edward Bruce in Ireland
- Episode 18: 'In this Bruce's time . falsehood and famine and homicide filled the country'
- Episode 19: Hebridean warriors: gallóglaigh seek their fortunes across the Narrow Sea
- Episode 20: From the Isles to the Glynns: the rise of Clan Donald
- Episode 21: How did Dalriada, the Mounth, Galloway, Twescard, the Route and the Glynns get so called?
- Episode 22: 'Daunting the Isles': the road to Harlaw
- Episode 23: Donal Ballach MacDonnell, the Glensman who led the Islanders to victory at Inverlochy in 1431
- Episode 24: Pibroch of Donuil Dhu 'The war-pipe and pennon, Are at Inverlochy'
- Episode 25: 'Daunting the Isles': the fall of Clan Donald
- Episode 26: 'Surrounded by Irish and Scots . without succour of the English for sixty miles'
- Episode 27: Lords of Tír Chonaill, allies of the King of Scots
- Episode 28: 1513: James IV and Hugh Dubh O'Donnell make a pact
- Episode 29: 1513: a Scots naval assault on Carrickfergus
- Episode 30: 1513: The Battle of Flodden
- Episode 31: 'The reek of Maister Patrik Hammyltoun': the Scottish Reformation begins
- Episode 32: Success for the Protestant reformers in Scotland
- Episode 33: 'Such mirrours of holiness and austeritie': the Reformation resisted in Gaelic Ulster
- Episode 34: 'A heresy and a new error': the Reformation's failure in Ulster
- Episode 35: Mary Queen of Scots and her son James VI
- Episode 36: James VI and the mission to the Gaidhealtacht
- Episode 37: The MacDonnells and the 'cankred dangerous rebel', Shane O'Neill
- Episode 38: 'They be occupied still in killing': a massacre on Rathlin
- Episode 39: 'This Scottish woman will make a new Scotland of Ulster': Sir John Perrot's 'rash, unadvised journeys'
- Episode 40: Gaelic Ulster defiant
- Episode 41: 'We spare none of what quality or sex soever'
- Episode 42: Randal MacDonnell, the great survivor in a time of defeat, destruction and conquest
- Episode 43: The escape of Conn O'Neill
- Episode 44: 'Parishes more wasted than America'
- Episode 45: 'Every Body was innocently busy': colonising Down
- Episode 46: Planting the Isles with 'answerable In-lands subiects'
- Episode 47: Colonising County Antrim
- Episode 48: The Flight of the Earls
- Episode 49: The Rebellion of Sir Cahir O'Doherty
- Episode 50: Inviting Scots to plant
- Episode 51: Making Ulster Visible - a civilising enterprise which would 'establish the true religion of Christ among men almost lost in superstition'
- Episode 52: The Printed Book
- Episode 53: 'Make speed, get thee to Ulster'
- Episode 54: 'Great things move slowly'
- Episode 55: Borderers: 'a fractious and naughty people'
- Episode 56: 'Poisoned with Popery': Strabane a refuge for Scottish Catholics
- Episode 57: Smouldering resentment
- Episode 58: The Eagle Wing and the Black Oath
- Episode 59: The 1641 Massacres and after
- Episode 60: A New Sunshine of Liberty?
- Episode 61: 'Seven Ill Years'
- Episode 62: Scots 'are coming over here daily'
- Episode 63: Hans Sloane
- Episode 64: John Toland, the champion of freethinkers
- Episode 65: 'Jet-black Prelatic Calumny'
- Episode 66: Flaxseed
- Episode 67: 'Like a contagious distemper'
- Episode 68: 'In America they may get good land'
- Episode 69: The dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment
- Episode 70: 'The pursuit of happiness': Francis Hutcheson and his legacy
- Episode 71: 'It is to Scotland that we look for our idea of civilisation'
- Episode 72: 'A good wheen of ingens'
- Episode 73: 'The pleasantness of this solitary wilderness'
- Episode 74: 'Our cause we leave to Heaven and our rifles'
- Episode 75: 'An Irish-Scotch Presbyterian Rebellion'
- Episode 76: Charles Thomson: 'He who speaks the truth'
- Episode 77: 'We seek for our Rights'
- Episode 78: 'A cordial union'?
- Episode 79: 'Every man with his destroying weapon in his hand'
- Episode 80: A young eyewitness on the eve of battle: Ballynahinch, 12 June 1798
- Episode 81: 'Negotiating and jobbing': the Union
- Episode 82: Mary Ann McCracken: revolutionary, radical and tireless activist
- Episode 83: The Rhyming Weavers
- Episode 84: Sarah Leech, a flax-spinning poet in Donegal
- Episode 85: New Light versus Old Light
- Episode 86: 'Mr. O'Connell, look at Belfast, and be a Repealer - if you can'
- Episode 87: 'Swarming with vagrants from the sister kingdom'
- Episode 88: 'Old Hickory' and the 'Trail of Tears'
- Episode 89: Divided loyalties: the Scotch-Irish and the American Civil War
- Episode 90: 'A second Belfast of the whole province': Canada
- Episode 91: An Industrial Hub: Belfast and Glasgow
- Episode 92: A new life in Scotland: navvies and miners
- Episode 93: 'The death rate from chest affections is very high': harsh working conditions
- Episode 94: Orange and Green in Scotland
- Episode 95: 'This Hibernian invasion has . stamped its impress on the country'
- Episode 96: 'Rabbles': the hiring fairs of Ulster
- Episode 97: Tattie Hokers: Donegal migrant workers in Scotland
- Episode 98: Paddy 'the Cope' Gallagher crosses over to Scotland
- Episode 99: Industrial Might . in Ulster .
- Episode 100: . And Industrial Might in Scotland
- Episode 101: 'You and I are just about fit to mend his pens': William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, scientific genius
- Episode 102: A question of identity: the Ulster crisis and after
- Episode 103: A Scottish radical's road to an Irish revolution: James Connolly
- Episode 104: War, industrial unrest and intercommunal conflict: Scotland and Ulster 1914-21
- Episode 105: Troubles: political, sectarian and industrial
- Episode 106: 'What about the 78,000 unemployed who are starving?': the Belfast Outdoor Relief riots of 1932
- Episode 107: Two disasters: Arranmore and Kirkintillock
- Episode 108: From peace to war
- Episode 109: The Blitz
- Episode 110: Arsenals of victory
- Episode 111: Better times in Scotland .
- Episode 112: . And better times in Northern Ireland
- Episode 113: The Princess Victoria Disaster
- Episode 114: 'I hoist my swag on my back': Australia
- Episode 115: New Zealand: an Ulster plantation at Katikati
- Episode 116: 'O yes, Hibernians, I beheld the Bard'
- Episode 117: Bluegrass: 'played from my heart to your heart'
- Episode 118: The Old Firm
- Episode 119: The Hamely Tongue
- Episode 120: Epilogue
- References
- Bibliography
- Illustrations
- Copyright
- About the Author
- About Gill Books
