The Book of Irish Families Great & Small. Volume I
The 100 Greatest Irish History and Politics Books
The 100 Greatest Irish History and Politics Books list covers all of Irish history only with a focus on the modern period. The listing begins with full general histories and then follows a loose chronological order.
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1. The Transformation Of Ireland 1900-2000
By Diarmaid Ferriter
A ground-breaking history of the twentieth century in Ireland, written on the virtually aggressive calibration by a brilliant young historian. It is pregnant that it begins in 1900 and ends in 2000 - almost accounts have begun in 1912 or 1922 and largely ignored the end of ... More »
2. Mod Ireland 1600-1972
Past R F Foster
A history of Republic of ireland from 1600 to 1972; an account not only of the events themselves simply also the fashion in which those events acted upon the peoples living in Republic of ireland to produce an 'Irish Nation'; a description of that nation's tragedy and resilience. More »
3. Ireland Since the Dearth
By F. S. L. Lyons
"...a full-calibration study of the political and social history of Ireland from 1850 to the 1970s. The political evolution of the Irish nation forms the ground of the volume: the land of the Union, the demands for Home Rule, the violence and the compromises ending in a divided ... More than »
4. Ireland 1798-1998: War Peace and Beyond
By Alvin Jackson
Receiving widespread critical acclaim when first published, Ireland 1798-1998 has been revised to include coverage of the most recent developments. Jackson's fashionable and impartial estimation continues to provide the near upward-to-appointment 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
By Terence Brown
The seminal history of Ireland's most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium. With its starting signal the bloody cosmos of the Irish Gratis 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
By David Fitzpatrick
The partition of Republic of ireland created two states embodying rival ideologies and representing 2 hostile peoples. This book concerns the revolution which prompted partition, and the legacies of that revolution for the Irish gaelic Free Country and Northern Ireland. Though less bloody than the nationalist uprising after 1916, Unionist defiance ... More than »
7. Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
Past Senia Paseta
This is a book about the Irish Question, or more specifically virtually Irish gaelic Questions. The term has go something of a catch-all, a convenient way to encompass numerous issues and developments which pertain to the political, social, and economic history of modernistic Ireland.The Irish Question has of form ... More »
8. Nationalism in Ireland
By D. George Boyce
Based on all-encompassing historical, literary and political inquiry, this text examines the human relationship betwixt ideas and political and social reality. It explains why the aspirations of Irish nationalism have failed to modify the facts of Irish political disharmonize and sectarian division. For this revised edition, Professor Boyce has ... More than »
ix. The Modernisation of Irish Society 1848 - 1918
By Joseph J. Lee
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 i of the about modern and advanced political cultures in the globe during that fourth dimension. Lee contends that the Famine death-rate, however ... More than »
11. A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
Past John Gibney
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the xx-kickoff century Five centuries of Irish gaelic history are explored in this informative and attainable volume. John Gibney proceeds from the showtime of Ireland'south mod menses and continues through to well-nigh ... More than »
12. Medieval Ireland
By Clare Downham
Medieval Ireland is frequently described equally a astern-looking nation in which alter only came well-nigh as a event of strange invasions. By examining the wealth of under-explored evidence available, Downham challenges this popular notion and demonstrates what a culturally rich and diverse identify medieval Ireland was. Starting in ... More »
fourteen. The Cambridge History of Ireland: Book 2, 1550-1730
By Jane Ohlmeyer; Thomas Bartlett
This book offers fresh perspectives on the political, armed forces, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early mod Republic of ireland and situates these discussions in global and comparative contexts. The opening capacity focus on 'Politics' and 'Organized religion and War' and offer a chronological narrative, informed by the ... More »
fifteen. Women in Early Mod Ireland, 1500-1800
Past Margaret MacCurtain; Mary O'Dowd
The Irish woman is looked at in all her activities, domestic, political and religious following the Reformation, armed forces conquest, country settlement and the bear upon of the Enlightenment and the French and American revolutions. 21 specialists from Republic of ireland, Britain and America look at the period of Irish history from ... More »
xviii. Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800
By Due south. J. Connolly
For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked past war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the by. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant ... More »
19. Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925
By Mary O'Dowd; Maria Luddy
What were the laws on spousal relationship in Ireland, and did church building and state differ in their estimation? How did men and women encounter and conform to marry? How important was patriarchy and a married man'due south control over his married woman? And what were the options available to Irish men and ... More »
20. The Popular Mind in Eighteenth-century Republic of ireland
By Vincent Morley
This book is a study of the Irish pop 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 colloquial literature of the catamenia.The topics investigated include: politics, faith, historical ... More than »
22. Republic of ireland: A New Economic History 1780-1939
Past Cormac O Grada
Ireland: A New Economical History offers a fresh, comprehensive economic history of Republic of ireland between 1780 and 1939. Its methodology is mould-breaking, and information technology is unparalleled in its broad telescopic and comparative focus. Cormac Ó Gráda unites historical research with economic theory in an original and stimulating book, which ... More »
26. The Irish gaelic Enlightenment
By Michael Brown
Scotland and England produced many well-known intellectuals during the Enlightenment, but Ireland'due south contribution to this revolution in Western thought has received less attention. The Irish gaelic Enlightenment considers a range of artists, writers, and philosophers who were total participants in the pan-European experiment that forged the mod world. John ... More »
27. Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
By Matthew Kelly
The environmental humanities are one of the nigh exciting and rapidly expanding areas of interdisciplinary report, and this drove of essays is a pioneering try to employ these approaches to the report 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
By Gearoid O Tuathaigh
This outstanding survey of Irish gaelic history between 1798 and the Famine looks at the origins, course and consequences of the changes which swept through Irish gaelic life in the period. It traces the ascension of modernistic Irish nationalism and the parallel pass up and plummet of the sometime eighteenth-century social ... More »
30. Republic of ireland: Social, Political and Religious
Past Gustave de Beaumont
Paralleling his friend Alexis de Tocqueville'due south 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 »
35. Ireland and the British Empire
By Kevin Kenny
Modern Irish history was adamant by the ascent, expansion, and refuse of the British Empire. British purple history, from the age of Atlantic expansion to the age of decolonization, was moulded in part by Irish feel. But the nature of Ireland's position in the Empire has always been ... More »
36. Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland
By Due west. East. Vaughan
This is a written report of relations between landlords and tenants in Ireland between the nifty dearth and the country war. Based on a remarkably wide range of principal sources, most notably collections of estate papers, it is a comprehensive and wide-ranging assay, in which W.E. Vaughan explores evictions, ... More »
37. Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945
Past Fintan Lane; Donal O Drisceoil
This book is the first ever collection of scholarly essays on the history of the Irish gaelic working class. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the involvement of Irish gaelic workers in political life and movements between 1830 and 1945. Fourteen leading Irish and international historians and political scientists trace ... More »
39. Nationalism and Pop Protest in Ireland
By C. H. E. Philpin
The essays in this collection focus on the nature of popular protest and agrarian unrest and the development of nationalism in mod Republic of ireland. Some are concerned with particular manifestations of protest - Houghers, Rightboys, Defenders, Ribbonmen, the Country State of war, Sinn Féin. Others treat more general themes - cultural ... More »
41. The American Irish: A History
By Kevin Kenny
The American Irish gaelic: A History, is the first curtailed, 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 on eighteenth century to the nowadays day. While near previous accounts of the subject have concentrated ... More »
43. The Boston Irish: A Political History
By Thomas H. O'Connor
Settling in a city founded by the Puritans, the Irish of Boston evolved into 1 of America'southward nearly distinctive ethnic communities - and somewhen 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 than »
45. The Irish in Britain, 1815-1914
Past Graham Davis
This text surveys Irish clearing to Britain in the Victorian and Edwardian era. Based on a broad pick of new source material, this book offers an analysis of the Irish gaelic affect on British life. More »
46. Demography, Land 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 on 1970s approximately i-and-a-half one thousand thousand people left independent Ireland, the vast majority travelling to U.k.. Demography, Land and Gild is the first comprehensive assay of the twentieth-century Irish exodus to Britain. Meticulously researched, using an exhaustive ... More than »
51. Women in Ulster Politics, 1890-1940
Past Diane Urquhart
In this pioneering report, 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 in twentieth century Ulster politics. Signs Working on an under-researched expanse, [Urquhart] has skilfully uncovered fascinating information almost ... More »
53. Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918
Past Senia Paseta
This is a major new history of the experiences and activities of Irish nationalist women in the early on 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 information technology meant to exist a ... More »
54. Irish gaelic Women and the Great State of war
Past Fionnuala Walsh
This is the first book-length study of the bear on of the Great War on women's everyday lives in Ireland, focussing on the years of the war and its immediate backwash. Fionnuala Walsh demonstrates how Irish women threw themselves into the war effort, mobilising in diverse different forms, such ... More »
55. Ireland and the Bully State of war
Past Keith Jeffery
This book explores the impact, both immediate and in its longer historical perspective, of the First Globe War upon Ireland across the broadest range of experience - nationalist, unionist, Catholic, Protestant - and in civilian social, economical and cultural terms, besides as purely military. Underscoring the work ... More »
57. Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens
By Louise Ryan; Margaret Ward
This landmark book, reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Irish women being granted the correct to vote, is the first comprehensive analysis of the Irish gaelic suffrage motility from its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings to when feminist militancy exploded on the streets of Dublin and Belfast in ... More »
63. 1922: The Nascency of Irish Commonwealth
By Tom Garvin
This book examines the nascency of the Irish country and sets it in its European historical context. The procedure of democratic nation-making reached full fruition while a vicious ceremonious war was raging, ostensibly fought over points of political principle but actually deciding whether Republic of 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 fine art. Information technology explores fundamental simply neglected features of mod Irish history, presenting an inclusive narrative. This is a book about the ... More »
65. Sexual Politics in Modernistic Republic of ireland
By Sonja Tiernan; Sandra McAvoy; Mary McAuliffe; Jennifer Redmond
This innovative and compelling drove offers a new agreement of sexual and gender politics throughout nineteenth and twentieth-century Republic of 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 »
67. Motherhood In Ireland
By Patricia Kennedy
Good mothers, bad mothers, birth mothers, adoptive mothers, mothers who get out, 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 civilization. The body of work nerveless here presents ... More »
68. An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence
Past Andy Bielenberg
This volume provides a cogent summary of the economic history of the Irish Gratis State/Republic of Republic of ireland. It takes the Irish story from the 1920s right through to the nowadays, providing an splendid case study of one of many European states which obtained independence during and afterward the ... More »
69. A History of the Media in Republic of ireland
Past Christopher Morash
From the outset 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 by 4 centuries: the vigorous newspaper and pamphlet culture of the eighteenth century, the spread of ... More »
72. The Irish Counter Revolution 1921-1936
By John Regan
In 1921, Collins argued that the Anglo-Irish treaty offered nationalists the liberty 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 »
74. Defending Republic of ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies since 1922
By Eunan O'Halpin
This fascinating and original book is the showtime 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 offset generation of Irish leaders, going on ... More »
75. Industrial Evolution and Irish National Identity, 1922-1939
By Mary E. Daly
The roots of many bug facing Ireland'south economy today tin be traced to the showtime two decades post-obit 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 »
77. History and Memory in Mod Ireland
By Ian McBride
This volume addresses a subject of vital importance to the study of Irish gaelic history--literature and politics. Although collective memory and commemoration has attracted much attending from British, French and American scholars, this is the commencement major report of the relationship betwixt 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 State of 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 accept 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 beginning publication to address the topic of boyhood in Irish gaelic history, consists of nine chapters which examine the experience of Irish immature adults from the 'melancholia revolution' of the early nineteenth century to the emergence of the teenager in the 1960s. Based on new ... More »
80. Ireland and the European Spousal relationship
By Brigid Laffan; Jane O'Mahony
Recent times have witnessed a dramatic turn around in Ireland'south fortunes. From being a poor and peripheral country, it has emerged as a prosperous, dynamic and cocky-assured player among the nations of Europe. For many, the Irish feel provides a model of the potential rewards of European integration. ... More »
82. Politics in the Republic of Ireland
By John Coakley; Michael Gallagher
Politics in the Republic of Ireland is at present bachelor in a fully revised 6th edition. Building on the success of the previous five editions, it continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of the authorities and politics in the Republic of Republic of ireland. Written by some of ... More than »
83. Political Abuse in Ireland 1922 - 2010: A Kleptomaniacal Harp?
Past Elaine Byrne
This book is the only scholarly account of Irish corruption from 1922-2010. It empirically maps the reject in standards since the inauguration of Irish independence in 1922, to the loss of Irish gaelic economic sovereignty in 2010. This volume offers important perspectives on abuse theory. It argues that the ... More »
84. The Great Community: Civilization and Nationalism in Ireland
By David Dwan
The Smashing Community is a comprehensive reappraisal of cultural nationalism in Ireland. It traces its origins to the Immature Ireland movement of the 1840s, and moves on to examine W. B. Yeats'south initial endorsement and subsequent rejection of the group's ideals. Cultural nationalism, David Dwan argues, was not ... More »
88. Thrift Ireland: The Failure of Irish Commercialism
By Kieran Allen; Brian O'Boyle
Ireland has been marketed every bit the poster male child of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the land's ability to suffer economic pain will concenter investors and generate a recovery. In Austerity Ireland, Kieran Allen challenges this official image and argues that the Irish gaelic country's response ... More than »
90. The Red Hand: Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Republic of ireland
By Steve Bruce
Since the kickoff of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland", working course 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 than »
92. The Longest War: Northern Ireland's Troubled History
By Marc Mulholland
"The Troubles" in Northern Ireland have proved one of the nearly intractable conflicts in Europe since World State of war Two, consistently attracting international attention, particularly from the U.s.. This exploration of the primal bug and debates nearly Northern Ireland sets them in the historical context of hundreds of ... More »
93. A History of Ulster
By Jonathan Bardon
Volatile and dynamic, Ulster has for centuries been at the middle of the tempest 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 accept attempted a comprehensive account of the province, ... More »
94. Counterinsurgency and Collusion in Northern Ireland
By Marking McGovern
Bunco by British state forces in killings perpetrated by loyalist paramilitaries was a dubious authentication of the 'dingy war' in the north of Ireland. Now, more than than twenty years since the Good Friday Understanding, the story of bunco remains one of the most enduring and contentious legacies of ... More »
95. Peace In Ireland: The State of war of Ideas
By Richard Bourke
Peace in Republic of ireland is a archetype 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 tardily nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Information technology covers the decisive episodes that marked the ... More »
96. Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland
By Anne Cadwallader
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 iii relatives; in other cases, children were left orphaned later on both parents were murdered. For years in that location were claims ... More »
97. War and an Irish Boondocks
By Eamonn McCann
Eamonn McCann'due south account of what it is similar to abound upward a Cosmic in a Northern Irish ghetto was first published in 1974. It quickly became a recognised as a classic business relationship of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the center of events ... More »
98. Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA
Past Richard English
A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Ascent to the current and ongoing peace procedure, fully updated with a new afterword for the paperback edition. 'An essential volume … closely-reasoned, formidably intelligent and utterly compelling … required ... More »
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