General Histories of the War of Independence (WoI), Truce Period and Civil War (CW)

The books listed on this page give overviews of the WoI, Truce Period or CW or focus on one of these three periods. Some encompass periods slightly outside 1919-1923 (but always include the latter years).

Author/ Editor	Name	Where?	Publisher	Year
Abbott, Richard	Police Casualties in Ireland 1919-1922	Cork	Mercier Press	2000
Abbott, Richard	Police Casualties in Ireland 1919-1922	Cork	Mercier Press	2019
Aubane Historical Society	Aubane versus Oxford: a response to Professor Roy Foster and Bernard O'Donnoghue	Aubane	Aubane Historical Society	2002
Augusteijn, Joost (Ed)	The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923	Basingstoke	Palgrave	2002
Barry, Michael	The Green Divide - An Illustrated History of the Irish Civil War	Dublin	Andalus Press	2014
Barry, Michael	The Fight for Irish Freedom - An Illustrated History of the Irish War of Independence	Dublin	Andalus Press	2018
Barry, Michael	An Illustrated History of the Irish Revolution 1916-1923	Dublin	Andalus Press	2019
Bew, Paul; Hazelkorn, Ellen & Patterson, Henry	Northern Ireland, 1921-2001: Political Forces and Social Classes	London		2003
Bowden, T.	The Breakdown of Public Security: The Case of Ireland 1916-1921 and Palestine 1936-1939
Boyce, D George	Englishmen and Irish Troubles: British Public Opinion and the Making of Irish Policy, 1918-1922	London	Jonathan Cape	1972
Clark, Gemma	Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War	Cambridge	Cambridge University Press
Clifford, B.	War, Insurrection and Election in Ireland, 1914-21	Belfast		1997
Coleman, Marie	The Irish Revolution, 1916-1923	London		2013
Collins, Lorcan	Ireland's War of Independence 1919-1921: The IRA's Guerilla Campaign	Dublin	O'Brien Press	2019
Collins, Michael	The Path to Freedom	Cork	Mercier Press	1996
Coogan, Tim Pat & Morrison, George	The Irish Civil War	London	Seven Dials	1999
Costello, Francis	The Irish Revolution and its Aftermath 1916-1923	Dublin	Irish Academic Press	2003
Cottrell, P. (Ed)	The War for Ireland	Oxford		2009
Cottrell, Peter	The Irish Civil War	Oxford		2008
Cottrell, Peter	The Anglo-Irish War: The Troubles of 1916-1923	Oxford		2006
Crawford, E. Margaret	Counting the People - A Survey of the Irish Censuses, 1813-1911	Dublin	Four Courts Press	2003
Crowley, John; Ó Drisceoil, Donal and Murphy, Mike (Eds)	Atlas of the Irish Revolution	Cork	Cork University Press	2017
Curran, Joseph M	The Birth of the Irish Free State 1921-1923	Alabama	University of Alabama Press	1980
de Burca, Padraig and Boyle, John F.	Free State or Republic?	Dublin	UCD Press	2002
Doherty, Gabriel & Keogh, Dermot (Eds)	Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State	Cork	Mercier Press	1998
Dolan, Anne	Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory, 1923-2000	Oxford		2003
Dorney, John	Peace after the Final Battle: The Story of the Irish Revolution	Dublin	New Island Press	2014
Fanning, Ronan	Fatal Path: British Government and the Irish Revolution, 1910-22	London	Faber & Faber	2013
Ferriter, Diarmaid	A Nation Not a Rabble - The Irish Revolution 1913-1923	London	Profile Books	2015
Ferriter, Diarmaid	Between Two Hells - The Irish Civil War	London	Profile Books	2021
Ferriter, Diarmaid and Riordan, Susannah (Eds)	Years of Turbulence: The Irish Revolution and its Aftermath - in Honour of Michael Laffen	Dublin	UCD Press
Fitzpatrick, David	The Two Irelands 1912-1939	Oxford	OUP	1998
Fitzpatrick, David (Ed)	Revolution? Ireland 1917-1923	Dublin	Trinity History Workshop	1990
Fitzpatrick, David (Ed)	Terror in Ireland 1916-1923	Dublin	Lilliput Press	2012
Foster, Gavin M.	The Irish Civil War and Society: Politics, Class and Conflict		Palgrave Macmillan
Fox, R. M.	Green Banners: The Irish Struggle	London		1938
Friemann, Gretchen	The Treaty - The Gripping Story of the Negotiations that Brought about Irish Independence and led to the Civil War	Newbridge	Merrion Press	2021
Gannon, Darragh & McGarry, Fearghal (Eds)	Ireland 1922 - Independence, Partition, Civil War	Dublin	Royal Irish Academy	2022
Garvin, Tom	1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy	Dublin	Gill & Macmillan	1996
Grob-Fitzgibbon, Benjamin	Turning Points of the Irish Revolution: The British Government, Intelligence and the Cost of Indifference	Palgrave		2007
Gwynn, D.	The History of Partition, 1912-1925	Dublin		1950
Harkness, David W.	The Restless Dominion: The Irish Free State and the British Commonwealth of Nations, 1921-1931	London		1969
Hart, Peter	The IRA at War 1916-1923	Oxford	Oxford University Press	2003
Hepburn, A. C.	Ireland 1905-25, Volume 2, Documents and Analysis	Newtownards	Colourpoint Books	1998
Holt, Edgar	Protest in Arms	New York		1960
Hopkinson, Michael	The Irish War of Independence	Dublin	Gill & Macmillan	2002
Hopkinson, Michael	Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War	Dublin	Gill & Macmillan	2004
Hughes, K.	English Atrocities in Ireland: A Compilation of Facts from Court and Press Records	New York		1920
Jeffrey, Keith	The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918-1922	Manchester		1984
Kautt, W., and Showalter, D.,	The Anglo-Irish War	London & New York	Praeger Publishing	1999
Kissane, Bill	The Politics of the Irish Civil War	Oxford	Oxford University Press	2005
Kostick, Conor	Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy 1917 to 1923	London		1996
Laffan, Michael	The Partition of Ireland 1911-1925	Dundalk	Historical Association of Ireland	1983
Laffan, Michael	The Resurrection of Ireland - The Sinn Féin Party, 1916-1923	Cambridge	Cambridge Academic Press	1999
Lawlor, Sheila	Britain and Ireland 1914-23	Dublin		1983
Litton, Helen	The Irish Civil War: An Illustrated History	Dublin	Wolfhound	1995
Lynch, Robert	The Partition of Ireland 1918-1925	Cambridge	Cambridge University Press	2019
Lynch, Robert	Revolutionary Ireland, 1912-25		Bloomsbury
Macardle, Dorothy	The Irish Republic	Dublin	Wolfhound	1999
Matthews, Kevin	Fatal Influence - The Impact of Ireland on British Politics, 1920-1925	Dublin	UCD Press	2004
Mitchell, A. and Ó Snodaigh, P. (Eds)	Irish Political Documents: 1916-1949	Dublin		1995
Mitchell, Arthur	Revolutionary Government in Ireland: Dáil Éireann 1919-1922	Dublin	Gill & Macmillan	1995
Morgan, Kenneth O.	Consensus and Disunity - The Llyod George Coalition Government 1918-1922	Oxford	Claredon Press	1979
Morrison, George	Revolutionary Ireland - A Photographic Record	Dublin	Gill & Macmillan	2013
Neeson, Eoin	The Irish Civil War 1922-23	Swords	Poolbeg Press	1989
Neeson, Eoin	Birth of a Republic	Dublin		1998
Ó Brion, Leon	Revolutionary Underground: The Story of the IRB 1858-1924	Dublin	Gill & Macmillan	1976
Ó Ruairc, Padraig Óg	Revolution - A Photographic History of Revolutionary Ireland 1913-1923	Cork	Mercier Press	2011
O'Connor, Ulick	The Troubles: The Struggle for Irish Freedom 1912 – 1922	London	Mandarin Paperbacks	1975
O'Day, Alan	Irish Home Rule 1867-1921	Manchester	Manchester Academic Press	1998
O'Donovan, John	An Introduction to the Irish Civil War	Cork	Mercier Press	2022
O'Farrell, Brian	The Founding of Dáil Éireann	Dublin		1971
O'Halpin, Eunan and Ó Corráin, Daithí	The Dead of the Revolution	New Haven & London	Yale University Press	2020
O'Hegarty, P S	The Victory of Sinn Fein	Dublin	UCD Press	1998
O'Reilly, Terence (Ed)	Our Struggle for Independence: Eye-witness Accounts from the pages of An Cosantóir	Cork	Mercier Press	2009
Philips, W. Alison	The Revolution in Ireland 1906-1923	London	Longmans	1926
Rees, R	Ireland 1905-25 Volume 1 Text and Historiography	Newtownards	Colourpoint Books	1998
Regan, John M.	The Irish Counter Revolution 1921-36	Dublin	Gill & Macmillan	1999
Regan, John M.	Myth and the Irish State	Sallins	Irish Academic Press	2013
Smith, J.	Britain and Ireland: From Home Rule to Independence	Harlow		2000
Staunton, Enda	The Nationalists of Northern Ireland 1918-1973	Blackrock	Columbia Press	2001
The Kerryman	With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom 1919 to the Truce: Red Path of Glory	Tralee	The Kerryman Press	1955
Townshend, Charles	The British Campaign in Ireland 1919-1921: The Development of Political and Military Policies	London	Oxford University Press	1975
Townshend, Charles	The Republic - The Fight for Irish Independence	London	Penguin	2014
Walsh, Maurice	Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World	London	Faber & Faber	2015
Walsh, O.	Ireland's Independence 1880-1923	London		2002
Walsh, Paul V	The Irish Civil War 1922-1923	New York		1998
Wheatley, N.	Nationalism and the Irish Party	Oxford		2005
Williams, T D (Ed)	The Irish Struggle	London	Routledge & Keegan Paul	1986
Wright, F.	Northern Ireland: A Comparative Analysis	Dublin		1988
Younger, Calton	Ireland's Civil War	London	Muller	1968
Younger, Calton	A State of Disunion	London	Fontana	1972

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