The 100 Greatest Irish History and Politics Books
The 100 Greatest Irish History and Politics Books list covers all of Irish history but with a focus on the modern period. The list begins with general histories and then follows a loose chronological order.
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1. The Transformation Of Ireland 1900-2000
A ground-breaking history of the twentieth century in Ireland, written on the most ambitious scale by a brilliant young historian. It is significant that it begins in 1900 and ends in 2000 - most accounts have begun in 1912 or 1922 and largely ignored the end of ... More »
2. Modern Ireland 1600-1972
By R F Foster
A history of Ireland from 1600 to 1972; an account not only of the events themselves but also the way in which those events acted upon the peoples living in Ireland to produce an 'Irish Nation'; a description of that nation's tragedy and resilience. More »
3. Ireland Since the Famine
"...a full-scale study of the political and social history of Ireland from 1850 to the 1970s. The political evolution of the Irish nation forms the basis of the book: the state of the Union, the demands for Home Rule, the violence and the compromises ending in a divided ... More »
4. Ireland 1798-1998: War Peace and Beyond
Receiving widespread critical acclaim when first published, Ireland 1798-1998 has been revised to include coverage of the most recent developments. Jackson's stylish and impartial interpretation continues to provide the most up-to-date and important survey of 200 years of Irish history. A new edition of this highly acclaimed history ... More »
5. Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2002
The seminal history of Ireland's most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium. With its starting point the bloody creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History explores how Irish identity has shifted across eighty years of unprecedented change and violence. ... More »
6. The Two Irelands: 1912-1939
The partition of Ireland created two states embodying rival ideologies and representing two hostile peoples. This book concerns the revolution which prompted partition, and the legacies of that revolution for the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. Though less bloody than the nationalist uprising after 1916, Unionist defiance ... More »
7. Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
By Senia Paseta
This is a book about the Irish Question, or more specifically about Irish Questions. The term has become something of a catch-all, a convenient way to encompass numerous issues and developments which pertain to the political, social, and economic history of modern Ireland.The Irish Question has of course ... More »
8. Nationalism in Ireland
Based on extensive historical, literary and political research, this text examines the relationship between ideas and political and social reality. It explains why the aspirations of Irish nationalism have failed to modify the facts of Irish political conflict and sectarian division. For this revised edition, Professor Boyce has ... More »
9. The Modernisation of Irish Society 1848 - 1918
In surveying the period from the Famine in 1848 to the triumph of Sinn Fein in the 1918 general election, Joe Lee argues that Ireland became one of the most modern and advanced political cultures in the world during that time. Lee contends that the Famine death-rate, however ... More »
10. When God Took Sides: Religion and Identity in Ireland - Unfinished History
The struggle between Catholic and Protestant has shaped Irish history since the Reformation, with tragic consequences up to the present day. But how do Catholics and Protestants in Ireland see each other? And how do they view their own communities and what these communities stand for? Tracing ... More »
11. A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
By John Gibney
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continues through to virtually ... More »
12. Medieval Ireland
Medieval Ireland is often described as a backward-looking nation in which change only came about as a result of foreign invasions. By examining the wealth of under-explored evidence available, Downham challenges this popular notion and demonstrates what a culturally rich and diverse place medieval Ireland was. Starting in ... More »
13. From Kings to Warlords: The Changing Political Structure of Gaelic Ireland in the Later Middle Ages
The Norman invasion of Ireland (1169) did not result in a complete conquest, and those native Irish chieftains who retained independent control of their territories achieved a recovery of power in the later middle ages. Katharine Simms studies the experience of the resurgent chieftains, who were undergoing significant ... More »
14. The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 2, 1550-1730
By Jane Ohlmeyer; Thomas Bartlett
This volume offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early modern Ireland and situates these discussions in global and comparative contexts. The opening chapters focus on 'Politics' and 'Religion and War' and offer a chronological narrative, informed by the ... More »
15. Women in Early Modern Ireland, 1500-1800
By Margaret MacCurtain; Mary O'Dowd
The Irish woman is looked at in all her activities, domestic, political and religious following the Reformation, military conquest, land settlement and the impact of the Enlightenment and the French and American revolutions. 21 specialists from Ireland, Britain and America look at the period of Irish history from ... More »
16. The British Problem c.1534-1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago
By Brendan Bradshaw; John Morrill; Ciaran Brady; Jim Smyth; J. G. A. Pocock
This pioneering book seeks to transcend the limitations of separate English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh histories by taking the archipelago made up of the islands of Britain and Ireland as a single unit of study. There has been little attempt hitherto to study the history of the 'Atlantic ... More »
17. The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: The Palesmen and the Nine Years' War, 1594-1603
Descendants of Ireland's Anglo-Norman conquerors, the Old English had upheld the authority of the English crown in Ireland for four centuries. Yet the sixteenth century witnessed the demotion of this Irish-born and predominantly Catholic community from places of trust and authority in the Irish administration in favour of ... More »
18. Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800
For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant ... More »
19. Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925
What were the laws on marriage in Ireland, and did church and state differ in their interpretation? How did men and women meet and arrange to marry? How important was patriarchy and a husband's control over his wife? And what were the options available to Irish men and ... More »
20. The Popular Mind in Eighteenth-century Ireland
This book is a study of the Irish popular mind between the late-seventeenth and the early-nineteenth century. It examines the collective assumptions, aspirations, fears, resentments and prejudices of the common people as they are revealed in the vernacular literature of the period.The topics investigated include: politics, religion, historical ... More »
21. Religion and Greater Ireland: Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750-1969
By Colin Barr; Hilary M. Carey
Impelled by economic deprivation at home and spiritual ambition abroad, nineteenth-century Irish clerics and laypeople reshaped the many sites where they came to pray, preach, teach, trade, and settle. So decisive was the role of religion in the worlds of Irish settlement that it helped to create a ... More »
22. Ireland: A New Economic History 1780-1939
Ireland: A New Economic History offers a fresh, comprehensive economic history of Ireland between 1780 and 1939. Its methodology is mould-breaking, and it is unparalleled in its broad scope and comparative focus. Cormac Ó Gráda unites historical research with economic theory in an original and stimulating book, which ... More »
23. Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest, 1780-1914
By James S. Donnelly Jr; Samuel Clark
This work provides a commentary on the landmarks of Irish agrarian history in the modern period. More »
24. The Year Of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1789
This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, THE YEAR OF LIBERTY is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a glossary of terms. ... More »
25. Ireland: A Social, Cultural & Literary History, 1791-1891
The nineteenth century was a period of enormous change in Ireland and has left a legacy that still affects Irish people today. It saw the shaping of a political nation, the trauma of the Famine, the restructuring of the economic system and the emergence of a new pattern ... More »
26. The Irish Enlightenment
Scotland and England produced many well-known intellectuals during the Enlightenment, but Ireland's contribution to this revolution in Western thought has received less attention. The Irish Enlightenment considers a range of artists, writers, and philosophers who were full participants in the pan-European experiment that forged the modern world. John ... More »
27. Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
The environmental humanities are one of the most exciting and rapidly expanding areas of interdisciplinary study, and this collection of essays is a pioneering attempt to apply these approaches to the study of nineteenth-century Ireland. By bringing together historians, geographers and literary scholars, new insights are offered into ... More »
28. Ireland Before the Famine 1798-1848
This outstanding survey of Irish history between 1798 and the Famine looks at the origins, course and consequences of the changes which swept through Irish life in the period. It traces the rise of modern Irish nationalism and the parallel decline and collapse of the old eighteenth-century social ... More »
29. Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory
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Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish ... More »
30. Ireland: Social, Political and Religious
Paralleling his friend Alexis de Tocqueville's visit to America, Gustave de Beaumont traveled through Ireland in the mid-1830s to observe its people and society. In Ireland, he chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. Published to ... More »
31. The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
The Maamtrasna Murders provides a cultural history of the events and subsequent impact of the renowned Maamtrasna murders from the perspective of language change in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Professor Kelleher takes the Maamtrasna case - one that is notorious for its failure to provide interpretation and translation services ... More »
32. Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The History of the Irish Socialist Republican Party 1896-1904
By David Lynch
The first full length study of the Irish Socialist Republican Party uses primary sources to delve into the internal politics and personalities that brought life to this important organisation. The party produced the first regular socialist paper in Ireland the Workers' Republic, ran candidates in local elections, represented ... More »
33. Was Ireland a Colony?: Economics, Politics and Culture in Nineteenth-century Ireland
The nineteenth-century history of Irish economics, politics and culture cannot be properly understood without examining Ireland's colonial condition. Recent political developments and economic success have revived interest in the study of the colonial relationship between Britain and Ireland that is more nuanced than the traditional nationalist or academic ... More »
34. The Invincibles: The Phoenix Park Assassinations and the Conspiracy that Shook an Empire
By Shane Kenna; Liz Gillis; Ruan O'Donnell
'Britain in Ireland is a beast exceeding terrible; his feet and claws are of iron,' The Invincibles In an Ireland still reeling from years of famine, with tenant farmers being evicted and left to starve for their inability to pay exorbitant rents, revolutionary fervour was growing. An ... More »
35. Ireland and the British Empire
By Kevin Kenny
Modern Irish history was determined by the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire. British imperial history, from the age of Atlantic expansion to the age of decolonization, was moulded in part by Irish experience. But the nature of Ireland's position in the Empire has always been ... More »
36. Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland
This is a study of relations between landlords and tenants in Ireland between the great famine and the land war. Based on a remarkably wide range of primary sources, most notably collections of estate papers, it is a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis, in which W.E. Vaughan explores evictions, ... More »
37. Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945
By Fintan Lane; Donal O Drisceoil
This book is the first ever collection of scholarly essays on the history of the Irish working class. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the involvement of Irish workers in political life and movements between 1830 and 1945. Fourteen leading Irish and international historians and political scientists trace ... More »
38. Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850-1922
Men and women who were born, grew up and died in Ireland between 1850 and 1922 made decisions - to train, to emigrate, to stay at home, to marry, to stay single, to stay at school - based on the knowledge and resources they had at the time. ... More »
39. Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland
The essays in this collection focus on the nature of popular protest and agrarian unrest and the development of nationalism in modern Ireland. Some are concerned with particular manifestations of protest - Houghers, Rightboys, Defenders, Ribbonmen, the Land War, Sinn Féin. Others treat more general themes - cultural ... More »
40. The End of Liberal Ulster: Land Agitation and Land Reform 1868-1886
Land, its ownership, its occupancy and the fate of the dispossessed has long been one of the most controversial issues in Irish society. Never was this truer than in the Land War period of the 1870s and 1880s. In this well-documented volume, Frank Thompson has provided a clear ... More »
41. The American Irish: A History
By Kevin Kenny
The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a long-overdue synthesis of Irish-American history from the beginnings of emigration in the early eighteenth century to the present day. While most previous accounts of the subject have concentrated ... More »
42. Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
From the 1660s to the early 1900s, no fewer than seven million people emigrated from Ireland to North America. This vast flow at once reflected and compelled enormous social changes on both sides of the Atlantic. In this book Miller chronicles the momentous causes of the Irish emigration ... More »
43. The Boston Irish: A Political History
Settling in a city founded by the Puritans, the Irish of Boston evolved into one of America's most distinctive ethnic communities - and eventually came to dominate local politics. In an authoritative narrative, rich with anecdote, Thomas H. O'Connor chronicles the growth of Irish political power in Boston, ... More »
44. United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic
Among the thousands of political refugees who flooded into the United States during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, none had a greater impact on the early republic than the United Irishmen. They were, according to one Federalist, "the most God-provoking Democrats on this side of Hell." "Every United ... More »
45. The Irish in Britain, 1815-1914
By Graham Davis
This text surveys Irish immigration to Britain in the Victorian and Edwardian era. Based on a wide selection of new source material, this book offers an analysis of the Irish impact on British life. More »
46. Demography, State and Society: Irish Migration to Britain, 1921-1971
By Enda Delaney
Between the foundation of the new Irish state in 1921-22 and the early 1970s approximately one-and-a-half million people left independent Ireland, the vast majority travelling to Britain. Demography, State and Society is the first comprehensive analysis of the twentieth-century Irish exodus to Britain. Meticulously researched, using an exhaustive ... More »
47. Conflict and Conciliation in Ireland 1890-1910: Parnellites and Radical Agrarians
By Paul Bew
This book explores the dilemma of Irish constitutional nationalism in the period from the fall of Parnell to the rise of Sinn Fein, when the two competing wings of conciliators and militants, struggled for control of the movement. By laying stress on the grass roots dimensions and divisions ... More »
48. The Fenians in Context: Irish Politics and Society 1848-82
This text provides the context for Fenianism and a perspective on the social and political history of mid-Victorian Ireland. The Fenian movement of the mid-19th century is one of the central elements in the story of Irish nationalism. It was a decisive factor in the land war of ... More »
49. Ireland and the Federal Solution: The Debate Over the United Kingdom Constitution, 1870-1920
By John Kendle
The debate over internal constitutional change took place at a time when many people were concerned about relations between Great Britain and the self-governing colonies. The issue of Imperial federation was continuously and exhaustively discussed and promoted from the late 1860s through World War I. The waters became ... More »
50. The Cruelty Man: Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889-1956
Recent debates surrounding children in State care, parental rights, and abuse in Ireland's industrial schools, concern issues that are rooted in the historical record. By examining the social problems addressed by philanthropists and child protection workers from the nineteenth century, we can begin to understand more about the ... More »
51. Women in Ulster Politics, 1890-1940
In this pioneering study, Urquhart provides a highly detailed, thoughtful disquisition on the gendering of womens political activity and the historical patterns that developed along sectarian lines very early on in twentieth century Ulster politics. Signs Working on an under-researched area, [Urquhart] has skilfully uncovered fascinating information about ... More »
52. Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964
Reveals the untold story of Irish drama's engagement with modernity's sexual and social revolutionsThe first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish Drama and the Other ... More »
53. Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918
By Senia Paseta
This is a major new history of the experiences and activities of Irish nationalist women in the early twentieth century, from learning and buying Irish to participating in armed revolt. Using memoirs, reminiscences, letters and diaries, Senia Pašeta explores the question of what it meant to be a ... More »
54. Irish Women and the Great War
This is the first book-length study of the impact of the Great War on women's everyday lives in Ireland, focussing on the years of the war and its immediate aftermath. Fionnuala Walsh demonstrates how Irish women threw themselves into the war effort, mobilising in various different forms, such ... More »
55. Ireland and the Great War
This book explores the impact, both immediate and in its longer historical perspective, of the First World War upon Ireland across the broadest range of experience - nationalist, unionist, Catholic, Protestant - and in civilian social, economic and cultural terms, as well as purely military. Underscoring the work ... More »
56. Stacking the coffins: Influenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918-19
By Ida Milne
A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic's effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life - culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life. More »
57. Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens
This landmark book, reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Irish women being granted the right to vote, is the first comprehensive analysis of the Irish suffrage movement from its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings to when feminist militancy exploded on the streets of Dublin and Belfast in ... More »
58. Making the Difference? The Irish Labour Party 1912-2012
By Paul Daly; Ronan O'Brien; Niamh Puirseil; Paul Rouse
In 2011, on the cusp of its centenary year, the Labour Party recorded its greatest ever electoral success, with 37 TDs elected and a President. In doing so the party has succeeded, temporarily at least, in breaking free from the old two-and-a-half party system. But, why, for its ... More »
59. Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922
This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' ... More »
60. The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence, 1918-1923
The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country. The damage ... More »
61. From Public Defiance to Guerilla Warfare: Experience of Ordinary Volunteers in the Irish War of Independence
Political events in the period between the 1916 rising and the truce of 1921 are well documented. The experience of volunteers at local level is examined here. The work analyzes how ordinary people in various parts of the country became increasingly willing to use violence, and provides an ... More »
62. Bitter Freedom: Ireland In A Revolutionary World 1918-1923
Bitter Freedom is a new history of the Irish Revolution, placing Ireland in the global disorder born of the terrible slaughter of total war, as well as a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human face of the conflict. The Irish Revolution - the war between the British authorities ... More »
63. 1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy
By Tom Garvin
This book examines the birth of the Irish state and sets it in its European historical context. The process of democratic nation-making reached full fruition while a vicious civil war was raging, ostensibly fought over points of political principle but actually deciding whether Ireland was to be ruled ... More »
64. Twentieth-century Ireland: Nation and State
By Dermot Keogh
Twentieth-Century Ireland is a revised and extended study of the long twentieth century, surveying politics, administrative history, social and religious history, culture and censorship, politics, literature and art. It explores central but neglected features of modern Irish history, presenting an inclusive narrative. This is a book about the ... More »
65. Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland
By Sonja Tiernan; Sandra McAvoy; Mary McAuliffe; Jennifer Redmond
This innovative and compelling collection offers a new understanding of sexual and gender politics throughout nineteenth and twentieth-century Ireland, providing a fresh and challenging approach to perspectives of Irish history. The notable contributors provide a captivating and controversial debate on sexuality in Irish Society, and specifically include explorations ... More »
66. Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory, 1923-2000
By Anne Dolan
After civil war, can the winners commemorate their victory, hailing their conquering heroes with the blood of their former comrades still fresh on their boots? Or should they cover themselves in shame and hope that the nation soon forgets? In this book, Anne Dolan explores the tensions between ... More »
67. Motherhood In Ireland
Good mothers, bad mothers, birth mothers, adoptive mothers, mothers who leave, mothers who stay, mothers who breastfeed and mothers who don't, mothers who work outside the home, die and nurture, mothers who commit crimes, mothers of different ability, race and culture. The body of work collected here presents ... More »
68. An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence
This book provides a cogent summary of the economic history of the Irish Free State/Republic of Ireland. It takes the Irish story from the 1920s right through to the present, providing an excellent case study of one of many European states which obtained independence during and after the ... More »
69. A History of the Media in Ireland
From the first book printed in Ireland in the sixteenth century, to the globalised digital media culture of today, Christopher Morash traces the history of forms of communication in Ireland over the past four centuries: the vigorous newspaper and pamphlet culture of the eighteenth century, the spread of ... More »
70. The Land for the People: The Land Question in Independent Ireland
While the land question from the mid-Victorian period to the eve of the First World War plays a prominent role in Irish historiography, historians have tended to overlook its importance in post-independence Ireland and have generally assumed that there was no land question after 1922. Terence Dooley debunks ... More »
71. Women and Politics in Contemporary Ireland: From the Margins to the Mainstream
The author shows how Irish women developed the political skills required to represent women's interests to government effectively leading to the dismanteling of a range of discriminatory policies against women and the accommodation of a feminist agenda within the political system. More »
72. The Irish Counter Revolution 1921-1936
By John Regan
In 1921, Collins argued that the Anglo-Irish treaty offered nationalists the freedom to achieve freedom. In 1926, Kevin O'Higgins went to London with a proposal to have the British monarch crowned king of a reunited Ireland. In 1933, Eoin O'Duffy, leader of the Blueshirts, advocated a corporatist state ... More »
73. Letters of the Catholic Poor: Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940
This innovative study of poverty in Independent Ireland between 1920 and 1940 is the first to place the poor at its core by exploring their own words and letters. Written to the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, their correspondence represents one of the few traces in history of Irish ... More »
74. Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies since 1922
This fascinating and original book is the first to analyse the evolution of internal security policy and external defence policy in Ireland from independence to the present day. Professor O'Halpin examines the very limited concept of external defence understood by the first generation of Irish leaders, going on ... More »
75. Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922-1939
By Mary E. Daly
The roots of many problems facing Ireland's economy today can be traced to the first two decades following its independence. Opening previously unexplored areas of Irish history, this is the first comprehensive study of industrial development and attitudes toward industrialization during a pivotal period, from the founding of ... More »
76. Building Democracy in Ireland: Political Order and Cultural Integration in a Newly Independent Nation
Most of the independent nations of the twentieth century have been racked by political disorder and social instability. Ireland is one of the few to have successfully established a stable democratic order. In this book, Jeffrey Prager examines the first decade of Irish independence in order to explain ... More »
77. History and Memory in Modern Ireland
By Ian McBride
This volume addresses a subject of vital importance to the study of Irish history--literature and politics. Although collective memory and commemoration has attracted much attention from British, French and American scholars, this is the first major study of the relationship between history and memory in Ireland--closing a remarkable ... More »
78. That Neutral Island
By Clair Wills
Of the countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, none was more controversial than Ireland, with accusations of betrayal and hypocrisy poisoning the media. Whereas previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high politics, That Neutral Island brings to life the atmosphere ... More »
79. Adolescence in Modern Irish History
By Catherine Cox; Susannah Riordan
This edited collection, the first publication to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history, consists of nine chapters which examine the experience of Irish young adults from the 'affective revolution' of the early nineteenth century to the emergence of the teenager in the 1960s. Based on new ... More »
80. Ireland and the European Union
By Brigid Laffan; Jane O'Mahony
Recent times have witnessed a dramatic turn around in Ireland's fortunes. From being a poor and peripheral state, it has emerged as a prosperous, dynamic and self-assured player among the nations of Europe. For many, the Irish experience provides a model of the potential rewards of European integration. ... More »
81. The Economy of Ireland: Policy-Making in a Global Context
By John O'Hagan; Francis O'Toole
The thirteenth edition of the successful textbook The Economy of Ireland should be of interest to not just third-level students but a wide lay audience. The story of the Irish economy, at the heart of the euro zone has been one of the most remarkable in the developed ... More »
82. Politics in the Republic of Ireland
By John Coakley; Michael Gallagher
Politics in the Republic of Ireland is now available in a fully revised sixth edition. Building on the success of the previous five editions, it continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of the government and politics in the Republic of Ireland. Written by some of ... More »
83. Political Corruption in Ireland 1922 - 2010: A Crooked Harp?
By Elaine Byrne
This book is the only scholarly account of Irish corruption from 1922-2010. It empirically maps the decline in standards since the inauguration of Irish independence in 1922, to the loss of Irish economic sovereignty in 2010. This volume offers important perspectives on corruption theory. It argues that the ... More »
84. The Great Community: Culture and Nationalism in Ireland
By David Dwan
The Great Community is a comprehensive reappraisal of cultural nationalism in Ireland. It traces its origins to the Young Ireland movement of the 1840s, and moves on to examine W. B. Yeats's initial endorsement and subsequent rejection of the group's ideals. Cultural nationalism, David Dwan argues, was not ... More »
85. The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party
The story of contemporary Ireland is inseparable from the story of the official republican movement, a story told here for the first time - from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and '70s through the Workers' Party's eventual rejection of irredentism. A roll-call ... More »
86. Political Censorship and the Democratic State: The Irish Broadcasting Ban
By Mary P Corcoran; Mark O'Brien
January 2004 marked the tenth anniversary of the repeal of Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act, under which for two decades journalists were prohibited from broadcasting interviews with spokespersons for proscribed organizations. This constraint affected RTÃ?s coverage of Northern Ireland in particular. This book details how an instance ... More »
87. Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, as in Iceland, the glittering palaces vanished in the heat of the global financial meltdown. For ... More »
88. Austerity Ireland: The Failure of Irish Capitalism
By Kieran Allen; Brian O'Boyle
Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the country's ability to suffer economic pain will attract investors and generate a recovery. In Austerity Ireland, Kieran Allen challenges this official image and argues that the Irish state's response ... More »
89. Northern Ireland 1921 - 2001: Political Power and Social Classes
By Paul Bew; Peter Gibbon; Henry Patterson
This highly praised study traces the province's history from partition in 1921 to today's peace process. Widely acknowledged as the best informed academic observers of Northern Irish politics, the authors look behind the handshakes on the White House lawn and provide a fascinating insight into history as it ... More »
90. The Red Hand: Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland
By Steve Bruce
Since the start of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland", working class Protestants have used violence and terror to "defend Ulster from traitorous republicans". Despite being responsible for about half the civilian casualties of the present conflict and despite having subverted major political initiatives, the loyalist paramilitary organizations - ... More »
91. Guns and Government: The Management of the Northern Ireland Peace Process
By Roger Mac Ginty; John Darby
The book is part of a wider study of the management of contemporary peace processes and has a strong comparative theme. It draws heavily on interviews with key players (politicians and policymakers) in the peace process. Darby and Mac Ginty identify six key strands in the Northern Ireland ... More »
92. The Longest War: Northern Ireland's Troubled History
"The Troubles" in Northern Ireland have proved one of the most intractable conflicts in Europe since World War II, consistently attracting international attention, particularly from the United States. This exploration of the central issues and debates about Northern Ireland sets them in the historical context of hundreds of ... More »
93. A History of Ulster
Volatile and dynamic, Ulster has for centuries been at the eye of the storm between Ireland and Britain, the complexity of its history embroiling its people and baffling the outside world. A History of Ulster achieves what few other books have attempted a comprehensive account of the province, ... More »
94. Counterinsurgency and Collusion in Northern Ireland
Collusion by British state forces in killings perpetrated by loyalist paramilitaries was a dubious hallmark of the 'dirty war' in the north of Ireland. Now, more than twenty years since the Good Friday Agreement, the story of collusion remains one of the most enduring and contentious legacies of ... More »
95. Peace In Ireland: The War of Ideas
Peace in Ireland is a classic study of the Northern Ireland Troubles which examines the events of 1968-2003 in broad historical perspective, including an exploration of the ideological roots of the conflict in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers the decisive episodes that marked the ... More »
96. Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland
Farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and businessmen were slaughtered in a bloody decade of bombings and shootings in the counties of Tyrone and Armagh in the 1970s. Four families each lost three relatives; in other cases, children were left orphaned after both parents were murdered. For years there were claims ... More »
97. War and an Irish Town
Eamonn McCann's account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto was first published in 1974. It quickly became a recognised as a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the centre of events ... More »
98. Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA
A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current and ongoing peace process, fully updated with a new afterword for the paperback edition. 'An essential book … closely-reasoned, formidably intelligent and utterly compelling … required ... More »
99. Politics in the Streets: Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland
By Bob Purdie
The civil rights movement of the 1960s profoundly transformed the political situation in Northern Ireland. Exposing injustice at the very heart of the Northern Ireland state - political favouritism, gerrymandering, sectarian discrimination in housing and job allocation - the civil rights protests were a militant but constitutional challenge ... More »
100. Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019: From Sunningdale to St Andrews
By John Coakley; Jennifer Todd
Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland: From Sunningdale to St Andrews uses original material from witness seminars, elite interviews, and archive documents to explore the shape taken by the Irish peace process, and in particular to analyse the manner in which successful stages of this were negotiated. Northern ... More »
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