Books on Specific Aspects of 1919-1923 period

Author/ Editor

Name

Where?

Publisher

Year

Barry, Michael

Fake News and the Irish War of Independence

Dublin

Andalus Press

2021

Ó Fathartaigh, Mícheál and Weeks, Liam

Birth of a State - The Anglo-Irish Treaty

Newbridge

Irish Academic Press

2021

Rennison, Nick

1922 - Scenes from a Turbulent Year

 

Oldcastle Books

2021

Allen, G.

An Garda Síochána: Policing Independent Ireland 1922-1982

Dublin

 

1999

Babington, Anthony

The Devil to Pay: the Mutiny of Connaught Rangers, July 1920

London

Leo Cooper

1991

Béaslaí, Piaras

How it was done: IRA Intelligence: Dublin's Fighting Story

London

 

1926

Bell, Geoffrey

Troublesome Business: The Labour Party and the Irish Question

London

 

1982

Bell, J. Bowyer

The Gun in Politics: An Analysis of Irish Political Conflict

New Brunswick, NJ

 

1991

Bennett, Richard

The Black and Tans

Kent

Spellmount

2001

Bew, Paul

Churchill and Ireland

Oxford

Oxford University Press

2016

Borgonovo, John

Spies, Informers and the 'Anti-Sinn Féin Society' - The Intelligence War in Cork City 1920-1921

Dublin

Irish Academic Press

2007

Bowman, Timothy

Carson's Army: the Ulster Volunteer Force, 1910-22

Manchester

 

2007

Brady, Conor

Guardians of the Peace

Dublin

Gill & Macmillan

1974

Brewer, John D.

The Royal Irish Constabulary: An Oral History

Belfast

The Institute of Irish Studies

1990

Bromage, Mary C

Churchill and Ireland

Notre Dame, Indiana

 

1964

Bury, Robin

Buried Lives - The Protestants of Southern Ireland

Cheltenham

The History Press

2017

Callinan, Elaine

Electioneering and Propaganda in Ireland, 1917-21: Votes, Violence and Victory

 

Four Courts Press

2020

Campbell, Colm

Emergency Law in Ireland 1918-1925

Oxford

 

1994

Carey, Tim

Hanged for Ireland "Forgotten Ten" Executed 1920-21

Dublin

Blackwater Press

2001

Carroll, F. M.

American Opinion and the Irish Question, 1910-1923

Dublin

 

1978

Carroll, F. M.

Money for Ireland: Finance, Diplomacy and the First Dáil Éireann Loans, 1919-1936

London

Praeger

2002

Carroll, F. M. (Ed)

The American Commission on Irish Independence 1919 - The Diary, Correspondence and Report

Dublin

Irish Manuscripts Commision

1985

Clarke, Wallace

Guns in Ulster: A History of the Ulster Special Constabulary

 

Wallace Clarke Book Sales

2002

Clifford, Brendan (Intro)

Irish Bulletin: a full reprint of the official newspaper of Dáil Éireann giving news and war reports: Volume 1: 12th July 1919 to 1st May 1920

Aubane

Aubane Historical Society

2012

Collins, Peter (Ed)

Nationalism and Unionism: Conflict in Ireland, 1885-1921

Belfast

 

1994

Comerford, M

The First Dáil, January 21st 1919

Dublin

J. Clarke

1969

Conlon, Lil

Cumman na mBan and the Women of Ireland, 1913-1925

Kilkenny

Kilkenny People Press

1969

Connell, Joseph E. A.

The Shadow War: Michael Collins and the Politics of Violence

Dublin

Eastwood

2019

Connolly, Linda (Ed)

Women and the Irish Revolution

Newbridge

Irish Academic Press

2020

Cousins, James A.

Without a Dog's Chance - The Nationalists and the Irish Boundary Commission, 1920-25

Dublin

Irish Academic Press

2020

Cronin, Sean

The Ideology of the IRA

Ann Arbor

 

1972

d'Alton, Ian and Milne, Ida (Eds)

Protestant and Irish: The Minority's Search for a Place in Independent Ireland

Cork

Cork University Press

2019

Deignan, Pádraig

The Protestant Community in Sligo, 1914-49

Sligo

 

2010

Delaney, Enda

Irish Emigration Since 1921

Dublin

The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland

2002

Delany, William

The Green and the Red: Revolutionary Republicanism and Socialism in Irish Socialism in Irish History: 1848-1923

New York

iUniverse

2001

Dooley, Terence

Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution

Yale

Yale University Press

2022

Duggan, John P

A History of the Irish Army

Dublin

Gill & Macmillan

1998

Dunphy, Richard

The Making of Fianna Fáil in Power, 1923-1948

Oxford

 

2005

Dwyer, T. Ryle

Michael Collins and the Treaty: His Differences with de Valera

Dublin

 

1981

Dwyer, T. Ryle

The Squad and the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins

Cork

Mercier Press

2005

Enright, Sean

The Trial of Civilians by Military Courts 1921

Dublin

Irish Academic Press

2012

Enright, Sean

The Irish Civil War - Law, Execution and Atrocity

Newbridge

Merrion Press

2019

Fanning, Ronan

The Irish Department of Finance, 1922-58

Dublin

 

1978

Fanning, Ronan et al

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Vol 1: 1919-1922

Dublin

 

1998

Farrell, Michael

Arming the Protestants: the Formation of the USC and RUC, 1920-1927

London

 

1983

Fennell, T.

The Royal Irish Constabulary: A History and Personal Memoir

Dublin

 

2003

Fitzpatrick, David

Irish Emigration 1801-1921

Dublin

The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland

1984

Flynn, B.

Pawns in the Game: Irish Hunger Strikes 1912-1991

Cork

 

2002

Foley, C.

Legion of the Rearguard: The IRA and the Modern Irish State

London

 

1992

Fox, R. M.

Rebel Irishwomen

Dublin/Cork

 

1935

Foxton, David

Revolutionary Lawyers:  Sinn Fēin and Crown Courts in Ireland and Britain, 1916-1923

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2008

Gardiner, Eamonn T.

Dublin Castle and the Anglo-Irish War: Counterinsurgency and Conflict

Cambridge

Cambridge Scholars Press

2009

General Staff, 6th Division

The Irish Rebellion: Important Episodes, Outrages, Operations and Encounters between Crown Forces and Rebels in 6th Division Area

Cork

Avaialble in Strickland Papers in Imperial War Museum

1921

Gibbons, Ivan

Partition: How and Why Ireland was Divided

 

Haus Publishing

2020

Gibney, John & Reid, Zoë

The Treaty 1921 - Records from the Archives

Dublin

Royal Irish Academy

2022

Gillis, Liz

Women of the Irish Revolution: A Photographic History

Cork

Mercier Press

 

Hand, G. J. (Ed)

Report of the Irish Boundary Commission, 1925

Shannon

 

1969

Harris, Mary

The Catholic Church and the Foundation of the Northern Irish State

Cork

 

1994

Hart, Peter (Ed)

British Intelligence in Ireland 1920-21: The Final Reports

Cork

Cork University Press

2002

Henry, Robert M

The Evolution of Sinn Féin

Dublin

Talbot Press

nd

Herlihy, Jim

The Royal Irish Constabulary: A Complete Alphabetical List of Officers and Men 1816 - 1922

Dublin

Four Courts Press

1999

Herlihy, Jim

The Dublin Metropolitan Police: A Short History and Genealogical Guide

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2001

Herlihy, Jim

The Royal Irish Constabulary: A Biographical and Genealogical Guide, 1816-1922

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2005

Herlihy, Jim

The Royal Irish Constabulary: A Short History and Genealogical Guide

Dublin

Open Air - Four Courts Press

2016

Herlihy, Jim

The Black & Tans 1920-1921: A Short Alphabetical List, Short History and Genealogical Guide

Dub

Four Courts Press

2021

Hezlet, Arthur

The 'B' Specials - A History of the Ulster Special Constabulary

Belfast

Mourne River Press

1997

Hittle, J. B. E.

Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War: Britiain's Counter-Insurgency Failure

Chicago

 

2012

Hughes, Brian

Defying the IRA? Intimidation, Coercion and Communities during the Irish Revolution

Liverpool

Liverpool University Press

2016

Irish Labour Party and Trade Union Congress

Who Burnt Cork City? A Tale of Arson, Loot and Murder: The Evidence of Over Seventy Witnesses

Dublin

 

1921

Jackson, Daniel

Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain

Liverpool

 

2009

Kautt, W. H.

Ambushes and Armour - The Irish Rebellion 1919-1921

Dublin

Irish Academic Press

2010

Kautt, W. H.

Ground Truths - British Army Operations in the Irish War of Independence

Sallins

Irish Academic Press

2014

Kenna, G. B.  (Fr. John Hassan)

Facts and Figures of the Belfast Pogroms 1920-1922

Dublin

The O'Connell Publishing Company'

1922

Kenneally, Ian

The Paper Wall - Newspapers and Propaganda in Ireland 1919-1921

Cork

Collins Press

2008

Kennedy, Dennis

The Widening Gulf: Northern Attitudes to the Independent Irish State

Belfast

 

1988

Kenny, Colum

Midnight in London - The Anglo-Irish Treaty Crisis 1921

Dublin

Eastwood Books

2021

Keogh, Dermot

The Vatican, the Bishops and Irish Politics 1919-39

Cambridge

 

1986

Kinnear, Michael

The Fall of Llyod George: The Political Crisis of 1922

London

 

1973

Knirck, Jason K.

Ghosts and Realities: Female TDs and the Treaty Debate

New Jersey

 

1977

Knirck, Jason K.

Imagining Ireland's Independence - The Debates over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921

Maryland

Rowman & Littlefield

2006

Knirck, Jason K.

Women of the Dáil: Gender, Republicanism and the Anglo-Irish State

Dublin

 

2006

Knox, O.

Rebels and Informers, Stirrings of Irish Independence

London

John Murray

1997

Kotsonouris, Mary

Retreat from Revolution - The Dail Courts, 1920-24

Blackrock

Irish Academic Press

1994

Larkin, Felix, M.

Terror and Discord - The Shemus Cartoons in the Freeman's Journal, 1920-1924

Dublin

A & A Farmer

2009

Lenihan, E.

Defiant Irish Women

Cork

 

1991

Lesson, D. M.

The Black and Tans - British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence

Oxford

Oxford University Press

2012

Lyman, Richard W.

The First Labour Government, 1924

London

 

1957

Maguire, Martin

The Civil Service and the Revolution in Ireland, 1912-39

Manchester

Manchester University Press

2008

Malcolm, Elizabeth

The Irish Policeman: 1882-1922

Dublin

 

2006

Markievicz, Countess

A Call to the Women of Ireland

Dublin

 

1918

Markievicz, Countess de

What Irish Republicans Stand For

Dublin

 

1922

Marx, Karl and Engels, Frederick [R. Dixon (Ed.)]

The Irish Question

London

 

1921

Matthews, Ann

Dissidents: Irish Republican Women 1923-1941

 

Mercier Press

 

Matthews, Ann

Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922

 

Mercier Press

 

McCall, Ernest

The Auxiliaries:  Tudor's Toughs, A Study of the Auxiliary Division Royal Irish Constabulary 1919-1922

Newtownards

Red Coat Publishing

2010

McCarthy, Brian

The Civic Guard Mutiny

Cork

Mercier Press

2012

McCarthy, Cal

Cumman na mBan and the Irish Revolution

Cork

Collins Press

2014

McColgan, John

British Policy and Irish Administration 1920-22

London

 

1983

McCoole, Sinead

Guns and Chiffon: Women Revolutionaries and Kilmainham Jail, 1916-1923

Dublin

 

1997

McCoole, Sinead

No Ordinary Women - Irish Revolutionary Women in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923

Dublin

O'Brien Press

2004

McDowell, R. B.

Crisis and Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists

Dublin

 

1998

McGarry, Fearghal and McConnel, James (Eds)

The Black Hand of Republicanism: Fenianism in Modern Ireland

Dublin

 

2009

McGee, Owen

The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood from the Land League to Sinn Féin

Dublin

 

2005

McKenna, Joseph

Guerrilla Warfare in the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921

Jefferson

 

2011

McMahon, Paul

British Spies and Irish Rebels: British Intelligence and Ireland 1916-1945

Woodbridge

The Boydell Press

2008

McNiffe, L.

A History of the Garda Siochána

Dublin

Wolfhound Press

1997

Mitchell, Arthur

Labour in Irish Politics: 1890-1930

Dublin

 

1974

Mockaitis, T. R.

British Counterinsurgency, 1916-1960

London

 

1990

Moore, Cormac

Birth of the Border - The Impact of Partition in Ireland

Kildare

Merrion Press

2019

Morgan, Austen

Labour and Partition: The Belfast Working Class 1905-23

Dublin

 

1995

Morgan, Austen and Purdie, Bob (Eds)

Ireland: Divided Nation, Divided Class

London

 

1980

Moriarty, Michael

The Execution of Kevin Barry: What it Said in the Papers

 

Hillglens Publishing

2019

Morris, Ewan

Our Own Devices: National Symbols and Political Conflict in Twentieth Century Ireland

Dublin

 

2005

Murphy, Brian P.

The Origins and Organisation of British Propaganda in Ireland 1920

Aubane

Aubane Historical Society

2006

Murphy, G.

The Great Cover-Up: The Truth about the Death of Michael Collins

Cork

 

2018

Murphy, William,

Political Imprisonment and the Irish, 1912-1921

Oxford

Oxford University Press

2016

Murray, Paul

The Irish Boundary Commission and its Origin, 1886-1925

Dublin

 

2011

National Graves Association

The Last Post

New York

NGA

1985

North-Eastern Boundary Bureau

Handbook of the Ulster Question

Dublin

 

1923

Nutall, Deirdre

Different and Same - A Folk History of Protestants in Independent Ireland

 

Eastwood Books

2020

Ó Brion, Leon

Protestant Nationalists in Revolutionary Ireland

Dublin

 

1985

Ó Duibhir, Liam

Prisoners of War: The Ballykinlar Internment Camp

Cork

 

2013

Ó Ruairc, Padraig Óg

Truce:  Murder, Myth and the Last Days of the Irish War of Independence

Cork

Mercier Press

2016

O'Brien, Paul

Havoc - The Auxiliaries in Ireland's War of Independence

Cork

Collins Press

2017

O'Callaghan, Sean

Informer

London

Transworld Publishers

1998

O'Donoghue, David

The Devil's Deal: The IRA, Nazi Germany and the Double Life of Jim O'Donovan

Dublin

New Ireland Press

2010

O'Donoghue, Florence (Foreward)

IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921

Cork

Mercier Press

2010

O'Dwyer, Martin

Seventy-Seven of Mine Said Ireland

Cashel

Cashel Folk Village

2006

O'Halloran, Claire

Partition and the Limits of Irish Nationalism

Dublin

 

1987

O'Leary, Cornelius and Maume, Patrick

Controversial Issues in Anglo-Irish Relations, 1919-1921

Dublin

 

2004

O'Neill, G. and Gallagher, T.P.

The Anglo Irish Treaty

London

 

1965

O'Sullivan Greene, Patrick

Crowdfunding the Revolution - The First Dáil Loan and the Battle for Irish Independence

Dublin

Eastwood Books

2020

O'Sullivan, D.J.

Irish Constabularies 1822 – 1922

Dublin

 Mount Eagle Publications

1999

O'Sullivan, Daniel

Irish Constabularies 1822 – 1922 (Dublin: Mount Eagle Publications, 1999)

Dublin

Mount Eagle Publications

1999

Pakenham, Frank (Lord Longford)

Peace by Ordeal: An Account, from First-Hand Sources, of the Negotiations and Signature of the Anglo-Irish Treary 1921

London

Nel Mentor

1967

Parkinson, Alan E.

Friends in High Places: Ulster's Resistence to Irish Home Rule 1912-14

Belfast

 

2012

Parkinson, Alan F.

A Difficult Birth: The Early Years of Northern Ireland 1920-25

Dublin

Eastwood Books

2020

Pearce, Edward

Lines of Most Resistance: The Lords, the Tories and Ireland

London

 

1999

Peatling, G. K.

British Opinion and Irish Self-Government, 1865-1925

Dublin

 

2001

Philips, Gregory D.

The Die-hards: Aristocratic Society and Politics in Edwardian England

London

 

1979

Ridley, Nicholas

Michael Collins and the Financing of Voilent Political Struggle

London & New York

Routledge

2018

Rigney, Peter

The Irish Munitions Embargo of 1920: How Railwaymen and Dockers Defied an Empire

Umiskin Press

 

2021

Ryan, Meda

Michael Collins and the Women who Spied for Ireland

Cork

 

2007

Scanlon, M.

The Dublin Metropolitan Police

London

 

1998

Share, Bernard

In Time of Civil War: the Conflict on the Irish Railways

Cork

 

2006

Smith, M.L.R.

Fighting for Ireland? The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement

London & New York

Routledge 

1995

Stewart, A. T. Q.

The Narrow Ground: The Roots of Conflict in Ulster

London

 

1977

Tansill, C. C.

America and the Fight for Irish Freedom, 1866-1922

New York

 

1957

Taylor, Paul

Heroes or Traitors? Experience of Southern Irish Soldiers returning from the Great War, 1919-1939

Liverpool

Liverpool University Press

 

Taylor, Rex

Assassination: The Death of Sir Henry Wilson and the Tragedy of Ireland

London

 

1961

Valiulis, Maryann G

Almost a Rebellion: the Irish Army Mutiny of 1924

Cork

Tower Books

1985

Valiulis, Maryann G (Ed)

Gender and Power in Irish History

Dublin

 

2009

Walsh, M.

G-2: In defence of Ireland: Irish Military Intelligence 1918-1945

Cork

 

2010

Ward, Alan J

Ireland and Anglo-American Relations 1899-1921

London

 

1969

Ward, Margaret

Unmanageable Revolutionaries - Women and Irish Nationalism

London

 

1995

Weeks, Liam and Ó Fathartaigh, Mícheál  (Eds)

The Treaty: Debating and Establishing the Irish State

Newbridge

Irish Academic Press

2018

Wilson, Timothy

Frontiers of Violence: Conflict and Identity in Ulster and Upper Silesia, 1918-1922

Oxford

 

2010

Connell, Joseph E. A.

The Terror War: The Uncomfortable Realities of the War of Independence

Dublin

Eastwood

2021

Cronin, Sean

The McGarrity Papers

Tralee

Anvil Books

1972

Curtis, Robert

The History of the Royal Irish Constabulary

Dublin

 

1871

Dooley, Terence

The Land for the People' - The Land Question in Independent Ireland

Dublin

UCD Press

2004

Hannigan, Dave

De Valera in America - The Rebel President's 1919 Campaign

Dublin

O'Brien Press

2008

Heffernan, Brian

Freedom and the Fifth Commandment: Catholic Priests and Political Violence in Ireland, 1919-1921

Manchester

Manchester University Press

2014

Miller, David W.

Queen's Rebels: Ulster Loyalism in Historical Perspective

Dublin

 

1979

O'Halpin, Eunan

The Decline of the Union - British Government in Ireland 1892-1920

Dublin

Gill & Macmillan

1987

Walsh, Maurice

The News from Ireland - Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution

London

I. B. Tauris

2008

White, Gerry and O'Shea, Brendan

Irish Volunteer Soldier 1913-23

Oxford

Osprey Publishing

2003

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