The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

Draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring together 36 leading scholars writing about 400 years of modern Irish history.

Alvin Jackson was educated at Corpus Christi College and Nuffield College, Oxford, and has been Lecturer in Modern Irish History at University College Dublin and Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. Among his books are Ireland 1798-1998: War, Peace and Beyond (2010) and The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007 (2012).

List of Contributors
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1: Alvin Jackson: Irish History in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
PART II: THEMATIC STUDIES
Nation, Empire, and Landscape
2: Sean Connolly: Patriotism and Nationalism
3: Alvin Jackson: Loyalists and Unionists
4: Stephen Howe: Colonized and Colonizers: Ireland in the British Empire
5: Yvonne Whelan: Landscape and Politics
People, Culture, and the Economy
6: Terence Dooley: Land and the People
7: Enda Delaney: Migration and Diaspora
8: Philip Ollerenshaw: Business and Industry
9: Marianne Elliott: Faith in Ireland, 1600-2000
10: Maria Luddy: Gender and Irish History
11: Margaret Kelleher: Irish Literary Culture in English
12: Fintan Cullen: Visual Arts
13: Toby Barnard: Material Cultures
14: Robert J. Savage: Film and Broadcast Media
PART III: PERIOD STUDIES
The Third Kingdom: Ireland, c.1580-1690
15: Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin: Plantation, 1580-1641
16: Jane Ohlmeyer: Confederation and Union, 1641-1660
17: Nicholas Canny: Ireland and Continental Europe, c.1600-c.1750
18: Ted McCormick: Restoration Ireland, 1660-1688
19: Robert Armstrong: The War of the Three Kings, 1689-1691
Ascendancy Ireland (1691-1801)
20: D. W. Hayton: Early Hanoverian Ireland, 1690-1750
21: David Dickson: Famine and Economic Change in Eighteenth Century Ireland
22: Éamonn Ó Ciardha: Irish-Language Sources for the History of Early Modern Ireland
23: Maurice J. Bric: Ireland and the Atlantic World, 1690-1840
24: James Kelly: Patriot Politics, 1750-1791
25: Patrick Geoghegan: Rising and Union, 1791-1801
British State and Catholic Nation (1800-1920)
26: Thomas Bartlett: The Emergence of the Irish Catholic Nation, 1750-1850
27: Peter Gray: Famine and Land, 1845-1880
28: Donald M. MacRaild: Emigration, 1800-1920
29: Matthew Kelly: Home Rule and its Enemies
30: Timothy Bowman: Ireland and the First World War
31: Niall Whelehan: The Irish Revolution, 1912-1923
Dominion, Republic, and Home Rule: The Two Irelands, 1920-2008
32: Fearghal McGarry: Southern Ireland, 1922-1932: A Free State?
33: Diarmaid Ferriter: De Valera's Ireland, 1932-1958
34: Henry Patterson: Unionism, 1921-1972
35: Eunan O'Halpin: The Second World War and Ireland
36: Brian Girvin: The Lemass Legacy and the Making of Contemporary Ireland, 1958-2011
37: Paul Arthur: The Long War and its Aftermath, 1969-2007