Overview

The study of Irish history, once riven and constricted, has recently enjoyed a resurgence, with new practitioners, new approaches, and new methods of investigation. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History represents the diversity of this emerging talent and achievement by bringing together 36 leading scholars of modern Ireland and embracing 400 years of Irish history, uniting early and late modernists as well as contemporary historians. The Handbook offers a set of scholarly perspectives drawn from numerous disciplines, including history, political science, literature, geography, and the Irish language. It looks at the Irish at home as well as in their migrant and diasporic communities.The Handbook combines sets of wide thematic and interpretative essays, with more detailed investigations of particular periods. Each of the contributors offers a summation of the state of scholarship within their subject area, linking their own research insights with assessments of future directions within the discipline. In its breadth and depth and diversity, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History offers an authoritative and vibrant portrayal of the history of modern Ireland.

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Author:   Alvin Jackson (Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History, Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.524kg
ISBN:  

9780199549344

ISBN 10:   0199549346
Pages:   802
Publication Date:   27 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Contributors A. INTRODUCTION Alvin Jackson: Irish History in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries B. THEMATIC STUDIES 1. Nation, Empire and Landscape 1: Sean Connolly: Patriotism and Nationalism 2: Alvin Jackson: Loyalists and Unionists 3: Stephen Howe: Colonised and Colonisers 4: Yvonne Whelan: Landscape and Politics 2. People, Culture and the Economy 5: Terence Dooley: Land and the People 6: Enda Delaney: Migration and Diaspora 7: Philip Ollerenshaw: Business and Industry 8: Marianne Elliott: Faith in Ireland 9: Maria Luddy: Gender and Irish History 10: Margaret Kelleher: Irish Literary Culture in English 11: Fintan Cullen: Visual Arts 12: Toby Barnard: Material Cultures 13: Robert Savage: Film and Broadcast Media C. PERIOD STUDIES 1. The Third Kingdom: Ireland, c.1580-1690 14: Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin: Plantation, 1580-1641 15: Jane Ohlmeyer: Confederation and Union, 1641-60 16: Nicholas Canny: Ireland and Continental Europe, c.1600-1750 17: Ted McCormick: Restoration Ireland, 1660-88 18: Robert Armstrong: The War of the Three Kings, 1688-91 2. Ascendancy Ireland (1691-1801) 19: David Hayton: Early Hanoverian Ireland, 1690-1750 20: David Dickson: Famine and Economic Change 21: Éamonn Ó Ciardha: Irish Language Sources for the History of Early Modern Ireland 22: Maurice Bric: Ireland and the Atlantic World, 1690-1840 23: James Kelly: Patriot Politics, 1750-91 24: Patrick Geoghegan: Rising and Union, 1791-1801 3. British State and Catholic Nation (1800-1920) 25: Thomas Bartlett: The Emergence of the Irish Catholic Nation, 1750-1850 26: Peter Gray: Famine and Land, 1845-80 27: Don MacRaild: Emigration, 1800-1920 28: Matthew Kelly: Home Rule and its Enemies 29: Tim Bowman: Ireland and the First World War 30: Niall Whelehan: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 4. Dominion, Republic and Home Rule: The Two Irelands, 1920-2008 31: Fearghal McGarry: Southern Ireland, 1922-32: A Free State? 32: Diarmaid Ferriter: ""De Valera's Ireland"", 1932-58 33: Henry Patterson: Unionism, 1921-72 34: Eunan O'Halpin: Ireland and World War II 35: Brian Girvin: The Lemass Legacy and the Making of Contemporary Ireland, 1958-2011 36: Paul Arthur: The Long War and its Aftermath, 1969-2007"

Reviews

Prof Alvin Jackson has put together a collection of 36 highly competent state of the art essays fully up to the standard of the celebrated Oxford Handbook series. Paul Bew, The Irish Times

Author Information

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).

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