title: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Ireland
author: John Waters
description: '...this is a very good book' --Michael O'Toole, Irish News (Belfast)
zlib_text: Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible
  way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published
  in more than 25 languages worldwide.
  
  
  The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in
  history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few
  years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short
  Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to
  conceptual art and cosmology.
  
  
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  Very Short Introductions available now:
  
  
  > ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas
  
  
  > THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair
  
  
  > ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia
  
  
  > ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn
  
  
  > ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne
  
  
  > ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes
  
  
  > ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland
  
  
  > AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick
  
  
  > BARTHES Jonathan Culler
  
  
  > THE BIBLE John Riches
  
  
  > BUDDHA Michael Carrithers
  
  
  > BUDDHISM Damien Keown
  
  
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