Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

Each chapter is not only an insightful discussion of a particular theme or period, but also a brief digest of important scholarly work, with particular attention for lacunae in the scholarship ... the Handbook is both an excellent introduction to Irish history and an important reference work
*Christopher Cusack, The Times Literary Supplement*

this substantial (786 pages) collection of essays manifests all that is admirable and valuable [in the Handbook series] ... the volume is fundamentally exciting and stimulating ... [Jackson's introduction] is invaluable ... the volume provides a much-needed, substantial, conscious attempt to provide a timetable and destination guide to a new emergent Irish history ... [and] intelligent and thought-provoking guidance for understanding new themes and research ... this work will be extraordinarily useful for students and scholars of Irish studies everywhere
*Paul Townend, Irish Literary Supplement*

what Alvin Jackson has done with this overview is to provide one of the most extensive overviews of Irish history, calling on 36 leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines ... as such this is very much a handbook which should be in the possession of anyone studying and researching Irish history -- not only does it offer a useful introduction to Irish history and historiography, it is also a crucial reference work
*English Historical Review*

it is likely to become an essential first port of call for anyone with a serious interest in Irish history for years to come
*Irish Catholic Books of the Year*

truly a blockbuster ... 36 chapters from leading scholars on a comprehensive range of topics, from thematic studies to more chronological accounts of Irish history since the late 16th century, cumulatively amounting to a panoramic prospectus of the current state of Irish historiography
*History Ireland*

the work is an excellent contribution to the field ... [and] an excellent teaching tool
*Irish Studies Review*

fully up to the standard of the celebrated Oxford Handbook series ... Jackson's fine opening essay draws on his widely admired archival research on the avatars of professionalism in the Irish historical scene -- Robin Dudley Edwards, TW Moody and JC Beckett
*Paul Bew, Irish Times*

The OUP Handbook of Modern Irish History, ranging over the last five centuries, imaginatively and expertly edited by Alvin Jackson, offers a rich cornucopia of perspectives from the 36 contributors, skilfully blending the chronological with the thematic in summarising the most recent understanding of topics and periods, while frequently and fruitfully meditating on possible future directions of enquiry. It is essential reading for understanding both how Ireland has got here, and for pondering possible further approaches to the historiography of the past five centuries
*J.J. Lee, New York University*