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
  
  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.
  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 HISTORY
  Dana Arnold
  ART THEORY
   Cynthia Freeland
  THE HISTORY OF
  ASTRONOMY
  Michael Hoskin
  Atheism
  Julian Baggini 
  Augustine
  Henry Chadwick
  BARTHES
  Jonathan Culler
  THE BIBLE
  John Riches
  BRITISH POLITICS 
  Anthony Wright
  Buddha
  Micha