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Kee was born on 5 October 1919 in Calcutta, India, to Robert and Dorothy (née Monkman). The family did well but was forced to return to Britain during the depressed early 1930s. [2] He earned a scholarship to Stowe School, Buckingham, and read history at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a pupil, then a friend, of the historian A.J.P. Taylor.
Government of Ireland Bill 1893 (as reported by the House of Commons) Archived 17 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine HC 1893–1894 (448) 3 323; Kee, Robert (2000) [1972]. The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism. Penguin Adult. ISBN 0-14-029165-2. Jackson, Alvin (2003). Home Rule: An Irish History 1800–2000. Phoenix. ISBN 0-7538-1767-5.
Lord Salisbury as St George spears the dragon Gladstone. The Government of Ireland Bill 1886, [1] commonly known as the First Home Rule Bill, was the first major attempt made by a British government to enact a law creating home rule for part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was introduced on 8 April 1886 by Liberal Prime ...
The Liberals and Ireland: the Ulster question in British politics to 1914 (Harvester Press, 1980). Kee, Robert. The Green Flag, (Penguin, 1972) popular history of Irish nationalism; Hammond, J. L. Gladstone and the Irish nation (1938) online edition. Loughlin, J. Gladstone, home rule and the Ulster question, 1882–1893 (1986). online
978-0140145151. The Great Hunger is a 1962 book about the 1845–1849 Great Famine in Ireland by the British historian Cecil Woodham-Smith. It was published by Harper and Row and Penguin Books. The British broadcaster and journalist Robert Kee described it, "A masterpiece of the historian's art". The British historian Denis Brogan said that it ...
History of Ireland (1801–1923) Ireland was part of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1922. For almost all of this period, the island was governed by the UK Parliament in London through its Dublin Castle administration in Ireland. Ireland underwent considerable difficulties in the 19th century, especially the Great Famine of the 1840s which ...
The Battle of Vinegar Hill (Irish: Cath Chnoc Fhíodh na gCaor) was a military engagement during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 on 21 June 1798 between a force of approximately 13,000 government troops under the command of Gerard Lake and 16,000 United Irishmen rebels led by Anthony Perry. The battle, a major rebel defeat, took place on 21 June ...
Ireland portal. v. t. e. The first evidence of human presence in Ireland dates to around 34,000 years ago, with further findings dating the presence of homo sapiens to around 10,500 to 7,000 BCE. [1] The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Quaternary, around 9700 BCE, heralds the beginning of Prehistoric Ireland, which ...