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