Here is a joke that used to do the rounds during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A plane was about to land in Belfast. During its descent, the pilot’s voice came over the announcement system: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, we are now approaching Belfast International Airport. Welcome to Ulster. Please set your watches back four hundred years.’
Making Empire: Ireland, imperialism, and the early modern world by Jane Ohlmeyer
Oxford University Press, £30 hb, 358 pp
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