History of Ireland

The History of Ireland is the topic of this stub; for Ireland in the 21st century see Ireland (state) and Northern Ireland.

Illustrations

Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798), insurgent of 1798 rebellion; drawing by Harald Toksvig

Insurgent of 1798 rebellion; drawing by Harald Toksvig

Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847); drawing by Harald Toksvig

John Mitchel (1815-1875); drawing by Harald Toksvig

Charles Parnell, (1846-1891); drawing by Harald Toksvig

John Redmond (1856-1918) leader of the Irish Party in British Parliament; drawing by Harald Toksvig

Arthur Griffith (1872-1922) founder of Sinn Féin; drawing by Harald Toksvig

Michael Collins (1890-1922) military leader of Irish Free State; drawing by Harald Toksvig

Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) leader of Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil; drawing by Harald Toksvig

Maps

Population trends

Ireland in 1171 showing traditional provinces; map by Harald Toksvig

Ireland under English King Henry VIII, 1540; map by Harald Toksvig

Pre-Cromwell confiscation of lands; map by Harald Toksvig

See also

• Kingdom of Oriel - an ancient kingdom situated in southern and central Ulster
• Irish Famine
• Irish Land League
• Easter Rising
• Ulster Unionism
• Home Rule party
• Irish Free State
• Irish War of Independence
• Irish Civil War
• Michael Collins
• Éamon de Valera

Bibliography

Reference and surveys

• Bartlett, Thomas and Jeffery, Keith. A Military History of Ireland (1996) excerpt and online search from Amazon.com
• Beckett, J.C. The making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923(1971)
• Bottigheimer, Karl S. Ireland and the Irish: A Short History. Columbia U. Press, 1982. 301 pp.
• Canny, Nicholas. From Reformation to Restoration: Ireland, 1534-1660 (Dublin, 1987)
• Connolly, S. J. ed. The Oxford Companion to Irish History (1998) online edition
• Cosgrove, Art. ed., A New History of Ireland, ii: Medieval Ireland, 1169-1534 Oxford U. Press 1987. 982 pp.
• Cronin, Mike. A History of Ireland. Palgrave. 2001. online edition
• Cullen, L. M. The Emergence of Modern Ireland, 1600-1900 (Dublin, 1981)
• Ellis, Steven G. Ireland in the Age of the Tudors 1447-1603. English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule (1998)
• Foster, R. F. Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (1988), standard scholarly survey excerpts and online search from Amazon.com
• Foster, R. F., ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Oxford U. Press, 1989. 382 pp.
• Fry, Peter and Fry, Fiona Somerset. A History of Ireland. Routledge, 1989. 366 pp.
• Hachey, Thomas E., Joseph M. Hernon Jr., Lawrence J. McCaffrey; The Irish Experience: A Concise History M. E. Sharpe, 1996 online edition
• Hickey, D. J. and Doherty, J. E. A Dictionary of Irish History since 1800. Barnes & Noble, 1980. 615 pp.
• Jackson, Alvin. Ireland: 1798-1998 (1999)
• Johnson, Paul. Ireland: Land of Troubles: A History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day. Holmes & Meier, 1982. 224 pp.
• Lee, J. J. Ireland 1912-1985 (1989)
• Lecky, W. E. H. A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, 5 vols. (1892) vol 3 online
• FSL Lyons, Ireland Since the Famine
• Moody, T. W. and Vaughan, W. E., eds. A New History of Ireland. Vol. 4: Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 1691-1800. Oxford U. Press, 1986. 849 pp.
• Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; and Byrne, F. J., eds. A New History of Ireland. Vol. 8: A Chronology of Irish History to 1976: A Companion to Irish History, Part 1. Oxford U. Press, 1982. 591 pp
• Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; and Byrne, F. J., eds. A New History of Ireland. Vol. 9: Maps, Genealogies, Lists. A Companion to Irish History, Part 2. Oxford U. Press, 1984.
• Newman, Peter R. Companion to Irish History, 1603-1921: From the Submission of Tyrone to Partition. Facts on File, 1991. 256 pp
• Ranelagh, John O'Beirne. A Short History of Ireland. Cambridge U. Press, 1983. 272 pp.
• Ranelagh, John. Ireland: An Illustrated History. Oxford U. Press, 1981. 267 pp.
• Vaughan, W. E., ed. A New History of Ireland. Vol. 5: Ireland under the Union, I, 1801-70. Oxford U. Press, 1990. 839 pp.
• Vaughan, W. E., ed. A New History of Ireland. Vol. 6: Ireland under the Union. Part 2: 1870-1921. Oxford U. Press, 1996. 957 pp.

Atlases and reference

• Cunliffe, Barry et al., ed. The Penguin Atlas of British and Irish History. 320 pp.
• Donnelly, James S., ed. Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture. Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. 1084 pp.
• Duffy, Sean. Atlas of Irish History (2nd ed 1997)
• Edwards, Ruth Dudley. An Atlas of Irish History. 2d ed. Methuen, 1981. 286 pp.
• Fleming, N. C. and O'Day, Alan. The Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History since 1800. 2005. 808 pp.
• Graham, B. J. and L. J. Proudfoot, eds. An Historical Geography of Ireland(1993)

Specialized studies

• Bartlett, Thomas and Keith Jeffrey, eds. A Military History of Ireland (1996)
• Boyce, D. George and Alan O’day. The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy 1996 online edition excerpt and online search from Amazon.com
• Cosgrove, Art. "The Writing of Irish Medieval History", I.H.S., xxvii (1990), 97-111
• Daly, Mary E. "The Irish Free State/ Éire/ Republic of Ireland/ Ireland: 'A Country by Any Other Name'?" Journal of British Studies 2007 46(1): 72-90. Issn: 0021-9371 Fulltext: Ebsco
• de Paor, Liam. The Peoples of Ireland. From Pre-History to Modern Times (London, 1986)
• Donnelly, J. S.. Jr., and Kerby A. Miller, eds. Irish Popular Culture (Dublin, 1999)
• Foster, John Wilson and Chesney, Helena C. G., eds. Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History. Dublin: Lilliput, 1998. 658 pp
• Hayes, Alan and Urquhart, Diane, eds. Irish Women's History. Dublin: Irish Acadamy Press, 2004. 240 pp.
• Hill, Jacqueline R. "Popery and Protestantism, Civil and Religious Liberty: The Disputed Lessons of Irish History 1690-1812", Past and Present, 118 (1988), 96-129 fulltext in JSTOR
• Kreilkamp, Vera, ed. Eire/Land (2003), environmental history
• Luddy, Maria. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork U. Press, 1995. 356 pp.
• ÓGráda, Cormac. Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780-1939. Oxford U. Press, 1994. 536 pp.
• Ward, Alan J. The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland 1782–1992 (Irish Academic Press, 1994) (ISBN 0-7165-2528-3)

Culture

• Brown, Terence. Ireland: A Social and Cultural History, 1922 to the Present. Cornell U. Press, 1985. 310 pp.
• Cahalan, James M. The Irish Novel: A Critical History. Twayne, 1988. 365 pp.
• Cleary, Joe and Connolly, Claire, eds. The Cambridge Guide to Modern Irish Culture. Cambridge U. Press, 2005. 363 pp.
• Deane, Seamus. A Short History of Irish Literature. U. of Notre Dame Press, 1986. 282 pp.
• Duddy, Thomas. A History of Irish Thought Routledge, 2002 online edition
• Flynn, Arthur. The Story of Irish Film. Blackrock, Ireland: Currach, 2006. 328 pp.
• Gonzalez, Alexander G. Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook Greenwood Press, 1997 online edition
• Kiberd, Declan. The Irish Writer and the World.

Cambridge U. Press, 2005. 331 pp.

• McHugh, Roger and Harmon, Maurice. Short History of Anglo-Irish Literature from Its Origins to the Present Day. Barnes & Noble, 1982. 377 pp.
• Mercier, Vivian, and Eilís Dillon. Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders Clarendon Press, 1994 online edition
• Morash, Christopher. A History of Irish Theatre, 1601-2000. Cambridge U. Press, 2002. 322 pp.
• Murphy, James H. Ireland: A Social, Cultural and Literary History, 1791-1891. Blackrock, Ireland: Four Courts Pr., 2003. 224 pp.
• ÓhÓgáin, Dáithí. The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopedia of Myth, Legend, and Romance. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell, 2006. 531 pp.
• Pierce, David. Light, Freedom, and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing. Yale U. Press, 2006. 350 pp.
• Yeats, W. B. A Book of Irish Verse Routledge, 2002 online edition

Famine era

• Kinealy, Christine. The Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52 (Dublin, 1994) excerpt and online search from Amazon.com
• Mokyr, Joel. Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800-1850. Allen & Unwin, 1983. 330 pp. online edition
• ÓGráda, Cormac. Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780-1939. Oxford U. Press, 1994. 536 pp.
• ÓGráda, Cormac. Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory. Princeton U. Press, 1999. 272 pp. excerpt and online search from Amazon.com
• Vaughan, W. E., ed. A New History of Ireland. Vol. 5: Ireland under the Union, I, 1801-70. Oxford U. Press, 1990. 839 pp.
• Woodham-Smith, Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald. The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 (1992) excerpt and online search from Amazon.com

Early 20th century

• Bell, J. Bowyer. The Secret Army: The IRA, 1916-1979. 2nd ed M.I.T. Press 1980. 481 pp.
• Coogan, Tim Pat. The Man Who Made Ireland: The Life and Death of Michael Collins. Roberts Rinehart, 1992. 510 pp.
• Coogan, Tim Pat. De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow (London, 1993).
• Costello, Francis Joseph. "The Anglo-Irish War, 1919-1921: A Reappraisal." PhD dissertation Boston Coll. 1992. 425 pp. DAI 1993 53(9): 3338-A. DA9301731 Online at Proquest
• Geraghty, Tony. The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict between the IRA and British Intelligence. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2000. 444 pp.
• Hart, Peter M. The I.R.A. and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923 Clarendon Press, 1999 350pp online edition
• Hart, Peter M. "The Social Structure of the Irish Republican Army, 1916-1923." Historical Journal 1999 42(1): 207-231. Fulltext: in Jstor
• Hart, Peter. The I.R.A. at War, 1916-1923. Oxford U. Press, 2004. 280 pp.
• Hart, Peter. "The Geography of Revolution in Ireland 1917-1923," Past and Present, No. 155 (May, 1997), pp. 142-176 online at JSTOR
• Kautt, William H. The Anglo-Irish War, 1916-1921: A People's War Praeger Publishers, 1999 online edition
• Townsend, Charles. "The Irish Republican Army and the Development of Guerrilla Warfare, 1916-1921." English Historical Review 1979 94(371): 318-345. Issn: 0013-8266 Fulltext: in Jstor
• Walsh, Oonagh. Ireland's Independence, 1880-1923 Routledge, 2002 online edition

Ulster

• Adamson, Ian. The Identity of Ulster, 2nd edition (Belfast, 1987)
• Arthur, Paul. Government and Politics of Northern Ireland
• Bardon, Jonathan. A History of Ulster (Belfast, 1992)
• Bew, Paul, Peter Gibbon and Henry Patterson, Northern Ireland 1921-1994: Political Forces and Social Classes (1995)
• Bew, Paul. Ideology and the Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism 1912-1916 (1998) excerpt and online search from Amazon.com
• Brady, Claran, Mary O'Dowd and Brian Walker, eds. Ulster: An Illustrated History (1989)
• Elliott, Marianne. The Catholics of Ulster: A History. (2001). online edition
• Farrell, Michael. Northern Ireland: The Orange State, 2nd edition (1980)
• Henessy, Thomas. A History of Northern Ireland, 1920-1996. (1998). 365 pp.
• Mitchel, Patrick. Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster, 1921-1998 (2003) excerpt and online search from Amazon.com
• Hostettler, John. Sir Edward Carson: A Dream Too Far (1997)

Primary sources

• Edwards, R. W. Dudley, and Mary O'Dowd, eds. Sources for Modern Irish History 1534-1641 (2003)