







List of Illustrations
1. Wild west shores
Ireland: Early Celtic Christian ring fort cashel monastic settlement and fishermen’s cottages, Innishmurray Island, County Sligo. Photo: David Lyons/Alamy
Scotland: Scara Brae neolithic village, Sandwick, Orkney. Photo: Stephen Coyne/Bridgeman Images
Wales: St Govan’s hermitage, Pembroke. Photo: Martin Lawrence Photography
2. Edward’s empire
Caernarvon Castle. Photo: Ken Walsh/Bridgeman Images
Edward I in Parliament, with the Archbishop of Canterbury, King Alexander III of Scotland, Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd and the Archbishop of York. From the Wriothesley MS, 1523. Photo: World History Archive/Alamy
3. Resistance
Battle of Bannockburn: Battle of Bannockburn, Day Two, painting by Andrew Hillhouse
Ireland’s Brian Boru: Sculpture head, Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle, Dublin. Photo: Gordon Hulmes Travel/Alamy
Owain Glyndwr: Bronze statue located in the Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Pennal, Gwynedd, Wales. Photo: The Photolibrary Wales/Alamy
4. English caricatures
Welsh harpist in despair: The Bard by John Martin (c. 1817). Oil on canvas. Photo: Bridgeman Images
Bonnie Scots piper. Photo: Bridgeman Images
Irish leprechaun. Photo: Bridgeman Images
John Bull. Photo: Bridgeman Images
5. The flight into exile
Ireland flees its famine: Thomas Nast, February 1880 cover of Harper’s Weekly. Photo: IanDagnall Computing/Alamy
Highland clearances: Engraving, c. 1886. Photo: AKG-Images
6. Forms of revival
Perth station in high season: Coming South, by George Earl. Oil on canvas. Photo: Bridgeman Images
Klondike comes to Merthyr Vale: Rolling Hills, Merthyr Tydfil, by Thomas Horner. Photo: National Museum of Wales/AKG-Images
Rhondda ladies. Photo: William Clayton/Bridgeman Images
7. Faces of dissent
Henry Grattan. Engraving by J. Godby after a drawing by A. Pope. Photo: Kean Collection/Getty Images
Charles Parnell. Photo: Bridgeman Images
Keir Hardie, c. 1892. Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images
David Lloyd George, c. 1920. Photo: AKG-Images
8. Divided not ruled
Bloody Sunday graffiti in Belfast: The Petrol Bomber and Bloody Sunday murals, Bogside. Photo: George Sweeny/Alamy
A disuniting kingdom: Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond launch the Scottish Government’s White Paper outlining plans for independence, Tuesday 26 November 2013, Glasgow, Scotland. Photo: David Gordon/Alamy
While every effort has been made to contact copyright-holders of illustrations, the author and publishers would be grateful for information about any illustrations where they have been unable to trace them, and would be glad to make amendments in further editions.