Books - General Histories & Background

This is quite a mixed bunch.  It is mainly general Irish history books which cover the 1919-1923 period.  Also, some books on relevant general themes.  (If you are new to the area and would like a good one volume overview of Irish history, I would recommend Thomas Bartlett’s Ireland – A History.)

Author/ Editor

Name

Where?

Publisher

Year

 

Bardon, Jonathon

A History of Ulster

Belfast

 

1992

Bardon, Jonathon

A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes

Dublin

Gill & Macmillan

2008

Bartlett, Thomas

Ireland - A History

Cambridge

Cambridge University Press

2010

Bell, J. Bowyer

The Secret Army: The IRA 1916-1979

Swords

Poolbeg

1989

Berresford Ellis, P.

A History of the Irish Working Class

New York

George Braziller

1973

Bew, Paul; Gibbon, Peter & Patterson, Henry

The Dynamics of Irish Politics

London

Lawrence & Wishart

1989

Bowman, John

De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-1973

 

Oxford

1982

Boyce, D George

Nationalism in Ireland

London

Routledge

1995

Boyce, D George (Ed)

The Revolution in Ireland 1879-1923

Dublin

 

1988

Brady, Ciaran (Ed)

Interpreting Irish History - The Debate on Historical Revisionism

Blackrock

Irish Academic Press

1994

Buckland, Patrick

Irish Unionism I: the Anglo Irish and the New Ireland

Dublin

 

1972

Buckland, Patrick

Irish Unionism II: Ulster Unionism and the Origin of Northern Ireland, 1886-1922

Dublin

 

1973

Canning, P.

British Policy Towards Ireland 1921-81

Oxford

 

1985

Curtis, L.

The Cause of Ireland, from United Irishmen to Partition

Belfast

Beyond the Pale Publications

1994

Delaney, Enda

Demography, State and Society: Irish Emigration to Britain, 1921-1971

Liverpool

 

2000

Elliott, Marianne

The Catholics of Ulster - A History

London

 

2000

English, Richard and Walker, Graham (Eds)

Unionism in Modern Ireland

Dublin

Gill & Macmillan

1996

Ferriter, Diarmaid

The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000

London

Profile Books

2004

Fitzpatrick, David

Descendancy: Irish Protestant Histories since 1895

Cambridge

Cambridge University Press

 

Foster, R. F.

Modern Ireland 1600-1972

London

Penguin

1989

Foster, R. F.

Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland 1890-1923

London

Penguin

2015

Foster, R. F.

The Oxford History of Ireland

Oxford

 

1989/ 1992

Garvin, Tom

Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland

Dublin

Gill & Macmillan

2005

Garvin, Tom

The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics

Dublin

Gill & Macmillan

2005

Geraghty, T.

The Irish War 

London

 

1998

Grant, Adrian

Irish Socialist Republicanism

Dublin

 

2012

Gregory, Adrian and Paseta, Senia (Eds)

Ireland and the Great War - 'A War to Unite us All'

Manchester

Manchester University Press

2002

Hanley, Brian

The IRA: A Documentary History 1916-2005

Dublin

 

2010

Hennessey, T.

A History of Northern Ireland 1920-96

Dublin

 

1997

Hennessey, T.

Dividing Ireland: World War One and Partition

Milton Park

 

1998

Hoppen, K. Theodore

Ireland Since 1800 - Conflict and Conformity

Harlow

Pearson Education

1999

Horne, John (Ed)

Our War - Ireland and the Great War

Dublin

Royal Irish Academy

2008

Horne, John and Madigan, Edward (Eds)

Towards Commemoration: Ireland in War and Revolution 1912 -1923

Dublin

Royal Irish Academy

 

Jackson, Alvin

Home Rule: an Irish History 1800-2000

London

 

2004

Kee, Robert

The Green Flag - A History of Irish Nationalism

 London

Penguin

2000

Keogh, Dermot

Twentieth Century Ireland

Dublin

Gill & Macmillan

2005

Laughlin, James

Ulster Unionism and British National Identity since 1885

London

Pinter

1995

Lee, J. J.

Ireland, 1912-85: Politics and Society

Cambridge

 

1989

Litton, Helen

Irish Rebellions: 1798 - 1916

Dublin

Wolfhound

1998

Mansergh, Nicholas

The Irish Question 1840-1921

London

Allen and Unwin

1965

Mansergh, Nicholas

The Unresolved Question - The Anglo-Irish Settlement and Its Undoing

New Haven

Yale University Press

1991

Mansergh, Nicholas

Nationalism and Independence - Selected Irish Papers

Cork

Cork University Press

1997

McBride, Lawrence W.

The Greening of Dublin Castle - The Transformation of Bureaucratic and Judicial Personnel in Ireland 1892-1992

Washington

Catholic University of America Press

1991

Moody, T. W. and Martin, F. X.

The Course of Irish History

Blackrock

Mercier Press

2001

O'Connor, Emmet

A Labour History of Ireland 1824-1960

Dublin

 

1992

O'Connor, Emmet

Reds and the Green - Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals 1919-43

Dublin

UCD Press

2004

O'Connor, Ulick

The Troubles: The Struggle for Irish Freedom 1912 – 1922

London

Mandarin Paperbacks

1975

O'Halpin, Eunan

Defending Ireland - The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922

Oxford

OUP

1999

Patterson, Henry

The Politics of Illusion

London

Hutchinson Radius

1989

Pelling, N.

Ango-Irish Relations, 1798-1922

London

 

2003

Rumpf, E. and Hepburn, A. C.

Nationalism and Socialism in 20th Century Ireland

Liverpool

Liverpool University Press

1977

Townsend, Charles

Political Violence in Ireland: Government and Resistance Since 1848

Oxford

Oxford University Press

1984

Townsend, Charles

Ireland

London

Edward Arnold

1999

Travers, Pauric

Settlements and Divisions: Ireland, 1870-1922

Dublin

 

1988

Walker, Brian M. (Ed)

Parliamentary Elections Results in Ireland, 1918-92

Dublin

Royal Irish Academy

1992

Wright, F.

Northern Ireland: A Comparative Analysis

Dublin

 

1988

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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