Select Bibliography of Irish Historiography

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  • Akenson, Donald H., The Irish Educational Experiment: The National System in Education in Nineteenth Century Ireland (London:Routledge & Keegan Paul 1970).
  • Alan O’Day, Irish Home Rule (Manchester UP 1996), [pb. edn.]
  • Alter, Peter, ‘Symbols of Irish Nationalism’, in Studia Hibernica 14 (1974), 104-123.
  • Andrews, K. R., N. Canny & P. E. H. Hair, eds., The Westward Enterprise: English Activities in Ireland, The Atlantic, and America 1480-1650 (Liverpool UP 1978).

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  • Bagwell, R., Ireland Under the Tudors: With a Succinct Account of the Earlier History, 3 vols (London: Longmans Green, 1885-90).
  • ——, Ireland Under the Stuarts, 3 vols (London: Longmans Green, 1909-16).
  • Bardon, Jonathan, A History of Ulster (Belfast: Blackstaff 1993), 914pp.
  • Barfoot, C. C., ed., In Black and Gold: Contiguous Traditions in Post-War British and Irish Poetry (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1994), 331pp.
  • Barnard, T. C., Cromwellian Ireland: English Government and Reform in Ireland 1649-60 (London: OUP 1975).
  • Barrington, T. J., The Irish administrative System (IPA 1980).
  • Bartlett, Thomas, & D. Hayton, eds., Penal Era and Golden Age: Essays in Irish History 1690-1800 (Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation 1979).
  • Bartlett, Thomas, ‘The O’Hara’s of Annaghmore, c.1600-1.1800: Survival and Revival, in Irish Economic and Social History, vol. IX (Dublin 1982), pp.34-52.
  • ——, ‘The Townshend Viceroyalty of 1767-72, in Penal Era and Golden Age: Essays in Irish History 1690-1800, ed. Bartlett and DW Haton, Ulster Hist. Foundation (Belfast 1979) [‘By the end of the viceroyalty, the Protestant oligarchy ‘had been broken’, p.111].
  • ——, & D. W. Hayton, eds., Penal Era and Golden Age: Essays in Irish History, 190-1800 (Belfast 1979), pp.113-136.
  • ——, et. al., eds., Irish Studies: A General Introduction (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1988).
  • ——, The Fall and Rise of the Irish Nation: The Catholic Question 1690-1830 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1992), 430pp.
  • Baudy, Leo, Narrative form in history and fiction (Princeton UP 1976).
  • Beames, Michael R., ‘Peasant Movements in Ireland 1785-95, Journal of Peasant Studies, vol 2 no. 4 (1975) pp.562-6.
  • Beames, Michael, Peasants and Power: The Whiteboy Movements and their Control in Pre-Famine Ireland (1983).
  • Beckett, Ian F. W., The Army and the Curragh Incident, 1914 (1986), xii+456pp.
  • Beckett, J. C., Protestant Dissent in Ireland 1687-1780 (London: Faber & Faber 1948).
  • ——, The Anglo-Irish Tradition (London: Faber & Faber, 1976)
  • ——, The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923 (London: Faber & Faber 1966).
  • ——, Confrontations: Studies in Irish History (London: Faber & Faber 1972).
  • Bell, J. B., The Secret Army: A History of the IRA 1916-70 (London: Blond 1970; Dublin: Academy Press 1979).
  • Bew, Paul, Land and the National Question in Ireland 1858-82 (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1978).
  • ——, Conflict and Conciliation in Ireland 1890-1910: Parnellities and Radical Agrarians (London: OUP 1987).
  • ——, Land and the National Question in Ireland 1858-82 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1978).
  • ——, P. Gibbon, and Henry Patterson, The State in Northern Ireland 1921-72: Political Forces and Social Classes (Manchester: Manchester UP 1979).
  • ——, Ideology and the Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish nationalism 1912-1916 (Oxford:Clarendon 1994), 165pp.
  • Black, R. D. C., Economic Thought and the Irish Question 1817-70 (Cambridge UP 1960).
  • Bowen, Desmond, The Protestant Crusade in Ireland 1800-1870: A Study of Protestant-Catholic Relations (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1978).
  • ——, Protestants in a Catholic State: Ireland’s Privileged Minority (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens’ University Press Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1983).
  • ——, The Protestant Crusade in Ireland 1800-1870: A Study of Protestant-Catholic Relations between the act of Union and the disestablishment (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1978).
  • Bowman, John, De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-73 (London: OUP 1982).
  • Boyce, D. George, The Dissolution of the Religious Orders in Ireland under Henry VIII (Cambridge UP 1974).
  • ——, ‘Native Reaction to the Westward Enterprise: a Case-Study in Gaelic Ideology’, in KR Andrews et al. eds., The westward enterprise. English activities in Ireland, the Atlantic, and America 1480-1650 (Liverpool UP 1978), pp.65-80
  • ——, Nationalism in Ireland (London: Croom Helm 1982; Macmillan; Dublin:Gill & Macmillan 1982), Do., 3rd edn. (Routledge 1995), pb., 499pp.
  • ——, Nineteenth Century Ireland and the Search for Stability (Dub:Gill & Macmillan 1990).
  • ——, Robert Eccleshall, and Vincent Geoghegan, eds., Political thought in Ireland since the 17th century (Routledge 1993), 227pp.
  • ——, Ireland 1828-1923: From Ascendancy to Democracy (Oxford: Blackwell 1992), 133pp. [school series; Boyce is Prof. of Political Theory at Swansea]
  • ——, and Alan O’Day, eds., The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the revisionist controversy (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1996), 254pp. [incl. essay by the eds., Sean Connolly, Hugh Kearney, John Hutchinson, Alvin Jackson, et al.]
  • Boylan, Thomas A., and Timothy P. Foley, Political Economy and Colonial Ireland: the propagation and ideological function of Economic discourses in the 19th century (Routledge 1992), 208pp with index.
  • Bradshaw, Brendan, ‘Native Reaction to the Westward Enterprise: A case study in Gaelic Ideology, in Andrews et. al., eds. (1978).
  • ——, The Irish Constitutional Revolution of the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge UP 1979).
  • ——, Andrew Hadfield, and Willy Maley, eds., Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict (Cambridge UP 1994), 259pp. [essays by historians and critics]
  • ——, and John Morrill [?Merritt], The British Problem, c.1534-1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago (London: Macmillan 1996), 344pp.
  • Brady, Ciaran and Raymond Gillespie, eds., Natives and Newcomers: Essays on the Making of Irish Colonial Society 1534-1641 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1986), 259pp. [incl. Alan Ford, ‘The Protestant Reformation in Ireland’, pp.50-74; Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Native Culture and Political Change in Ireland 1580-1640, pp.148-70].
  • Brady, Ciaran, Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism (IAP 1994), 348pp.
  • ——, The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform government in Tudor Ireland, 1536-1588 (Cambridge UP 1995), 322pp.
  • Brooke, P., Ulster Presbyterianism: The Historical Perspective 1610-1970 (NY: St Martin’s Press 1987).
  • Brown, Terence, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-1985 (1987).
  • Buckland, Patrick, Irish Unionism: The Anglo-Irish and the New Ireland 1885-1922 [Vol I] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1972).
  • ——, Ulster Unionism and the Origins of Northern Ireland 1886-1922 [Vol. II] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan; NY: Barnes & Noble 1973).
  • Buckland, Patrick, The Factory of Grievances: Devolved Government in Northern Ireland 1931-39 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1979).
  • Bull, Phillip, Land Politics and Nationalism: A Study of the Irish Land Question (Gill & Macmillan 1996).
  • Byrne, Francis J., Irish Kings and High Kings (London: OUP 1973).

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  • Callanan, Frank, The Parnell Split 1890-91, foreword by Conor Cruise O’Brien (Cork UP 1992), 351pp; O’Brien regards the author as being in ‘firm control of his sources’ and praises his fantasia or imaginative insight.
  • Canny, Nicholas P., The Formation of the Old English Elite in Ireland [1974 O’Donnell Lecture] (Dublin: NUI 1975), 39pp..
  • ——, The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: a Pattern Established 1565-76 (Sussex: Harvester Press 1976).
  • ——, and A. Pagden, eds., Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World 1500-1800 (Princeton: Princeton UP 1987).
  • ——, From Reformation to Restoration: Ireland 1534-1660 (Dublin: Criterion /Helicon 1987).
  • ——, Kingdom and Colony: Ireland in the Atlantic World 1560-1800 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP 1988).
  • ——, ‘Identity Formation in Ireland: The Emergence of the Anglo-Irish’, in Canny and A. Pagden, eds., Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (Princeton UP 1987).
  • Canny, Nicholas P., Europeans on the Move: Studies on European Migration 1500-1800 (Oxford:Clarendon 1994), 382pp.
  • Casey, Daniel J., and Rhodes, Robert E., Views of the Irish Peasantry 1800-1916 (Connecticut: Archon Books 1977).
  • Chadwick, Nora K., The Age of the Saints in the Early Christian Church (London: OUP 1961).
  • Chubb, Basil, The Government and Politics of Ireland (London: OUP 1970).
  • Clark, Samuel. and J. Donnelly, eds., Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest 1780-1914 (Manchester UP 1983).
  • Clark, Samuel, Social Origins of the Irish Land War (Princeton UP 1979).
  • ——, and James S. Donnelly Jr., eds., Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest l780-19l4 (1983).
  • ——, Social Origins of the Irish Land War (Princeton UP [1942] 1979).
  • Clarke, Aidan, The Old English in Ireland 1625-42 (London: MacGibbon & Kee 1966).
  • ——, ‘Colonial identity in seventeenth-century Ireland’, in T. W. Moody, Nationality and the Pursuit of National Independence (Appletree 1978), pp.57-71 [incl. Donncha Ó Corrain, ‘Nationality and kingship in pre-Norman Ireland’, pp.1-35]
  • Collins, Kevins, The Cultural Conquest of Ireland (Cork: Mercier Press 1991).
  • Colm Campbell, Emergency Law in Ireland, 1918-1925 (London: OUP 1994), 429pp.
  • Comerford, R. V., The Fenians in Context: Irish Politics and Society 1848-82 (Dublin: Wolfhound Press; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press 1985; rep. 1998).
  • Connell, K. H., The Population of Ireland 1750-1845 (London: OUP 1950).
  • Connolly, Seán J., Religion, Law and Order: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760 (Oxford:Clarendon 1992), 346pp.
  • Connolly, Seán J., Priests and People in Pre-Famine Ireland 1780-1845 (Gill & Macmillan 1982).
  • ——., Religion and Society in Nineteenth Century Ireland: Studies in Economic and Social History [no. 3] (Dundalk 1985).
  • Corish, Patrick J., The Catholic Community in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Dublin: Helicon 1981).
  • ——, The Irish Catholic Experience: A Historical Survey (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan 1985).
  • ——, ed., A History of Irish Catholicism, 3 vols. (Dublin: Gill 1968).
  • Cosgrove, Art, Late Medieval Ireland 1370-1541 (Dublin 1981).
  • ——, & Donal MacCartney, eds., Studies in Irish History presented to R[obert] Dudley Edwards (UCD 1979) [incl. Patrick J Corish, ‘Gallicanism at Maynooth: Archbishop Cullen and the Royal Visitation of 1853’, pp.176-89].
  • Coughlan, Patricia, ed., Spenser and Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Perspcitve (Cork: Cork UP 1990).
  • Crawford, Jon G., Anglicising the Government of Ireland: The Privy Council and the Expansion of Tudor Rule 1556-1578 (Irish Academic/Irish Legal Hist. Soc. 1993), 508pp.
  • Crossman, Virginia, Politics, Law and Order in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin: gill & Macmillan 1996).
  • Crotty, Raymond, Irish Agricultural Production: Its Volume and Structure (Cork: Cork UP 1966).
  • ——, Ireland in Crisis: A Study of Capitalist colonial Underdevelopment (Dingle:Brandon 1968).
  • Cullen, Louis M., The Emergence of Modern Ireland 1600-1900 (London: Batsford, 1981).
  • ——, An Economic History of Ireland Since 1660 (London: Batford 1972; 2nd edition 1988).
  • ——, The Hidden Ireland: Reassesment of a Concept (Westmeath: Lilliput Press 1988). [prev. in Studia Hibernica, Vol. 9 pp.7-74].
  • Curtis, Edmund, History of Medieval Ireland from 1086 to 1513 (Dublin: Maunsel & Roberts 1923; rep. London: Methuen, 1936, 1937; rev. edn. Methuen 1938; 1950 [6th edn.] 1968).
  • ——, History of Ireland (London: Methuen 1936; rep. 1937, 1950, 1968).
  • ——, with R. B. McDowell, eds., Irish Historical Documents 1172-1922 (London: Methuen 1943).
  • Curtis, Louis P., Coercion and Conciliation in Ireland 1880-92: A Study in Constructive Unionism (Princeton UP; OUP 1963).
  • Curtis, L. Perry, Jr., Anglo-Saxons and Celts: A Study of Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England [Conference of British Studies at Bridgeport Univ.] (Connecticut: Bridgeport UP 1968).
  • ——, Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian caricature (Newton Abbott 1971).
  • ——, ‘The Anglo-Irish Predicament’, in 20th Century Studies (November 1970), pp.37-63.

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  • Daly, Mary E., Dublin, The Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic History 1860-1914 (Cork UP 1985).
  • Daly, Mary E., Industrialisation and Irish National Identity 1920-1939 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1992).
  • ——, Industrial Development and Irish National Identity 1922-39 (Syracuse UP).
  • Davis, R., The Young Ireland Movement (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan 1987).
  • de Paor, Liam, Divided Ulster (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1970).
  • ——, ‘The Rebel Mind: Republican and Loyalists in The Irish Mind, ed. R Kearney (1985).
  • ——, The Peoples of Ireland: From Prehistory to Modern Times (London: Hutchinson 1986).
  • ——, Unfinished Business (London: Hutchinson Radius 1990).
  • ——, ed., Milestones in Irish History [Thomas Davis Lectures] (RTE/Mercier Press 1986; rep. Dufour Eds. 1991).
  • Denman, Terence, Ireland’s Unknown Soldiers: the 16th (Irish) Division in the Great War (IAP 1992), 209pp.
  • Dickson, David, and Kevin Whelan, eds., The United Irishmen: Republicanism, Radicalism, and Rebellion, A Bicentennial Perspective (Dublin: Lilliput 1993), 378pp. [22 essays incl. Marianne Elliott on Defenderism; Dáire Keogh on politicisation of Catholics; Jim Smyth on Freemasonry; R. B. McDowell on Burke; Thomas Graham on Bantry Bay; also Thomas Bartlett, Dickson, and Allan Blackstock.]
  • ——, ed., The Gorgeous Mask, Dublin 1700-1850 [Trinity History Workshop] (Dublin: 1987).
  • ——, ed., The Gorgeous Mask, Dublin 1700-1850 (Dublin: Trinity History Workshop 1987).
  • ——,New Foundations: Ireland 1660-1800 (Dublin: Helicon, 1987).
  • ——, Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 (Cork UP 2005), xvii, 726pp.
  • Dickson, R. H., Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-85 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1966).
  • Dickson, Charles, The Wexford Rising in 1798: Its Causes and its course [1st edn. 1955] (London: Constable 1997), 273pp.
  • Dillon, Martin, Stone Cold: The true story of Michael Stone and the Milltown Massacre (Hutchinson 1992), 240pp.
  • Doherty, J. E. & Hickey, D. J.: A Chronology of Irish History since 1500 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1980; pb. 1987), 615pp.
  • Dolley, Michael, Anglo-Norman Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1972).
  • Donnelly, James S., The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1975).
  • Doyle, D. N., Ireland, Irishmen and Revolutionary America 1760-1820 (Cork: Mercier Press 1981).
  • Dunphy, Richard, The Making of Fianna Fail Power in Ireland, 1923-1928 (Clarendon Press 1995).
  • Dutton, David, Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition: The Unionist Party in Opposition 1905-15 (Liverpool UP 1992), 321pp. [reviewed Paul Bew, IT 3.10.92]

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  • Edwards, R. W. D, and M. O’Dowd, Sources for Early Modern Irish History 1534-1641 (Cambridge UP 1985).
  • ——, Church and State in Tudor Ireland (Dublin and Cork: The Talbot Press 1935).
  • Edwards, Ruth Dudley, An Atlas of Irish History, 2nd edition (London: Methuen 1981).
  • ——, Church and State in Tudor Ireland (Dublin and Cork: The Talbot Press 1935).
  • Elliott, Marianne, Partners in Revolution: The United Irishmen and France (London and New Haven: Yale UP 1978).
  • Elliott, Marianne, Wolfe Tone. Prophet of Irish Independence (London and New Haven: Yale UP 1989).
  • Ellis, Peter Berresford, Hell of Connaught: The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1652-1660 (Hamish Hamilton 1975).
  • Ellis, S. G., Tudor Ireland: Crown, Community and the Conflict of Cultures (London: Longman 1985).
  • English, Richard, Radicals and the Republic: Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State 1925-1937 (London: OUP 1994).

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  • Farrell, Brian, Chairman or Chief: The Role of the Taoiseach in Irish Government (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1971).
  • ——, ed., The Irish Parliamentary Tradition (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1973) [incl. F. S. L. Lyons, ‘The Meaning of Independence’]
  • ——, ed., De Valera’s Constitution and Ours (Dub:Gill & Macmillan 1989) [incl. Yvonne Scannell, ‘The Constitution and the Role of Women’]
  • ——, ed., The Creation of theDail (Blackwater Press 1994).
  • Farrell, Michael, Arming the Protestants: The Formation of the Ulster Special Constabulary and the Royal Ulster Constabulary 1920-72 (London: Pluto Press; Dingle: Brandon 1983).
  • ——, Northern Ireland: The Orange State (London: Pluto Press 1980).
  • Fennell, Desmond, The State of the Nation: Ireland since the Sixties (Dublin: Poolbeg Pres 1983).
  • Fergusson, Sir James, The Curragh Incident (Faber 1964), ill.
  • Fisk, Robert, Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939-45 (Dingle: Brandon; London: André Deutsch 1983).
  • Fitzpatrick, David, Politics and Irish Life 1913-1921: Provincial Experience of War and Revolution (Gill & Macmillan 1977).
  • ——, Irish Emigration 1801-1920 (Dundalk: Dundealgan Press 1984).
  • Foley, Conor, Legion of the Rearguard: the IRA and the Modern Irish State (London: Pluto Press 1992), 241pp.
  • Foster, R. F., Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (London: John Lane/Penguin Books, 1988).
  • ——, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Ireland (London: OUP 1989).

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  • Gailey, Andrew, Ireland and the Death of Kindness: The Experience of Constructive Unionism 1890-1905 (Cork UP 1987).
  • Garvin, Tom, The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1981).
  • ——, Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928 (London: OUP 1987).
  • Gillespie, Raymond, Colonial Ulster: The Settlement of East Ulster 1600-1641 (Cork UP 1985).
  • Goldring, Maurice, Faith of Our Fathers: the Formation of the Irish Nationalist Ideology ([London} Repsol 1982).
  • Goldstrom, J. A. and L.A. Clarkson, eds., Irish Population, Economy and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell (London: OUP 1981).
  • Gough, H. and D. Dickson, eds., Ireland and the French Revolution (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1990).
  • Graham, Brian, and L. J. Proudfoot, An Historical Geography of Ireland (Dublin: IAP; NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1993).

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  • Hadfield, Andrew, and John McVeigh, eds., Strangers to the Land: British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine ([q.pub.] 1994).
  • Handbook of British Chronology, 565pp. [Royal Historical Soc. 1961].
  • Harkness, D., The Restless Dominion: The Irish Free State in the British Commonwealth of Nations 1921-31 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1969).
  • ——, Northern Ireland since 1920 (Dublin: Helicon, 1983).
  • Harmon, Maurice, ed., Fenians and Fenianism (Dublin: Scepter Books 1970).
  • Hechter, Michael, Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development 1536-1966 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1975).
  • Henry, Gráinne, The Irish Military Community in Spanish Flanders, 1586-1621 (IAP 1992), 208pp.
  • Hill, Michael J., Fire and Sword: Sorley Boy MacDonnell and the Rise of Clan Ian Mor 1538-90 (Athlone 1993), 321pp.
  • Hill, Ronald J. and Michael Marsh, eds., Modern Irish Democracy: Essays in Honour of Basil Chubb (Dublin: IAP 1993), 199pp.
  • Hinde, Wendy, Catholic Emancipation: A Shake to Men’s Minds (Blackwell 1992), 211pp., ill.
  • Hopkinson, M., Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1988).
  • Hoppen, K. Theodore, Elections, Politics and Society in Ireland 1832-85 (London: OUP 1985).
  • Hughes, K., The Church in Early Irish History (London: Methuen, 1966).
  • Hutchinson, John, The Dynamics of Cultural nationalism: The Gaelic Revival and the Creation of the Irish Nation State (London 1987).

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  • James, Francis G, Ireland in the Empire, 1688-1770: A history of Ireland from the Williamite Wars to the eve of the American Revolution (Harvard UP 1973).
  • Jeffrey, Keith, ed., "An Irish Empire?": Aspects of Ireland and the British Empire (Manchester UP 1996), 240pp. [0 7190 3873 1] [contribs. inc. Alvin Jackson, Tom Fraser, et. al.]
  • Johnston, E. M., Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1974).
  • Johnstone, Tom, Orange, Green, and Khaki: the story of Irish regiments in the Great War 1914-18 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan), 536pp
  • Jordan, Donald E., Jr., Land and Popular Politics in Ireland: Co. Mayo from the Plantation to the Land War (Cambridge UP 1994), 369pp.
  • Kee, Robert, The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1972).
  • ——, Ireland: A History (London: Abacus 1982).
  • Keenan, Joe, ed., The Labour Opposition of Northern Ireland 1925-26 (1992) [fac. of 17 issues of first Labour paper, which failed].
  • Kelly, Francis, A Guide to Early Irish Law (Dublin: DIAS 1988).
  • Kelly, James, Prelude to Union: Anglo-Irish Politics in the 1780s [Studies in Irish History] (Cork UP 1992) 320pp.
  • Kendle, J., Ireland and the Federal Solution: The Debate over the United Kingdom Constitution 1870-1920 (McGill-Queen’s UP 1989).
  • Kenney, J. F. Sources for the Early History of Ireland [1st edn. NY 1929] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1994) 833pp. £49.50 [1-85182-115-5]
  • Kenny, Colum, ‘The Exclusion of Catholics from the legal profession in Ireland’, Irish Hist. Studies, vol. xxv (Nov 1987), pp.337-57.
  • ——, King’s Inns and the Kingdom of Ireland: The Irish ‘Inns of Court’ 1541-1800 (IAP 1992), 352pp.
  • Keogh, Dáire, The French Disease: The Catholic Church and Radicalism in Ireland 1790-1800 (Blackrock:Irish Academic Press 1993), 297pp.
  • Keogh, Dermot, Ireland and the Vatican: The Politics and Diplomacy of Church-State Relations 1922-1960 (Cork UP 1995).
  • Kilroy, Phil, Protestant Dissent and Controversy in Ireland, 1660-1814 (Cork UP 1994).
  • Kohn, Hans, The idea of nationalism: a study in its origins and background (NY 1945).
  • Koppelmann, HL, Nation, Sprache und Nationalismus (Leiden 1965).

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  • Laffan, M., The Partition of Ireland 1911-25 (Dundalk: Dundealgan Press 1983).
  • Larkin, Emmet, The Making of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland 1850-1860 (Chapel Hill: North Carolina UP 1980).
  • ——, The Historical Dimension of Irish Catholicism (NY: Catholic Univ. of America UP 1984).
  • ——, The Consolidation of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland 1860-1870 (Chapel Hill: of North Carolina UP 1987).
  • Lebow, R. N., White Britain and Black Ireland: The Influence of Stereotypes on Colonial Policy [Institute for the Study of Human Issues] (Philadelphia 1976).
  • Lee, Joseph, The Modernisation of Modern Irish Society 1848-1918 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1973).
  • ——, Ireland 1912-1985: Politics and Society (Cambridge UP 1989) [reviewed by Roy Jenkins, Observer 21 Jan. 1990].
  • Litton, Frank, ed., Unequal Achievements - the Irish Experience 1957-82, (Dublin: [Gill and Macmillan] 1982).
  • Longley, Edna & Declan Kiberd, Multiculturalism: The View from Two Irelands (Cork UP 2001), 80pp.
  • Lydon, J. F., Ireland in the Later Middle Ages (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1973).
  • Lyons, F. S. L., Culture and Anarchy in Ireland 1890-1939 (London: OUP 1979).
  • ——, Ireland Since the Famine (London: Fontana 1971; 1972).

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  • MacArdle, Dorothy, The Irish Republic: A Documented Chronicle of the Anglo-Irish Conflict (London: Gollancz 1937; rep. 1968 1977).
  • ——, The Irish Republic: A Documented Chronicle of the Anglo-Irish Conflict (London: Gollancz, 1937; reprinted 1968, 1977).
  • MacCarthy, Charles, The Decade of Upheaval: Irish Trade Unions in the Sixies [Insit. of Public Admin.] (Dublin: IPA 1973).
  • MacConville, Michael, Ascendancy to Oblivion: The Story of the Anglo-Irish (London: Quartet [1986]).
  • MacCurtain, Margaret, Tudor and Stuart Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1972).
  • MacDonagh, Oliver, Ireland Since the Union (NJ: Prentice Hall 1968), reiss. as Ireland: The Union and its Aftermath (London: Allen & Unwin 1977).
  • ——, States of Mind: A Study of Anglo-Irish conflict 1780-1980 (George Allen & Unwin 1983).
  • ——, W. F. Mandle, Pauric Travers, eds., Irish Culture and Nationalism 1750-1950 (Macmillan 1983).
  • MacGrath, Kevin, ‘Writers in The Nation 1842-5’ in Irish Historical Studies, vol. VI (1948), pp.189-223
  • MacLysaght, Edward, Irish life in the seventeenth century, 2nd ed. (Cork UP & Oxford:Blackwell 1950).
  • Malcolmson, A. P. W., John Foster, The Politics of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy (London: OUP 1978).
  • Mansergh, Nicholas, The Irish Question 1840-1921 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1965; 1968; rev. edn. 1975).
  • McCarron, Donal, Step Together: the story of Ireland’s Emergency Army as Told by Its Veterans (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1998), 160pp.
  • McCarthy-Morrogh, Michael, The Munster Plantation (London: OUP 1986).
  • McCartney, Donal, The Dawning of Democracy: Ireland 1800-1870 (Dublin: Helicon 1987).
  • McDowell, Robert B., Irish Public Opinion 1750-1800 (London: Faber & Faber 1944).
  • ——, Public Opinion and government Policy in Ireland 1801-1846, Studies in Irish History, vol. V (London:Faber 1952; rep. Connect:Greenwood 1975).
  • ——, Ireland in the age of imperialism and revolution 1760-1801 (London: OUP 1979).
  • McFarland, E. W., Ireland and Scotland in the Age of Revolution: Planting the Green Bough (Edinburgh UP 1994), 272pp.

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  • Meenan, James, The Irish Economy since 1922 (Liverpool UP 1970).
  • Miller, David W., Church State and Nation in Ireland 1898-1921 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1973).
  • ——,Queen’s Rebels: Ulster Loyalism in Historical Perspective (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan; NY: Barnes & Noble, 1978).
  • Miller, K., Emigrants and Exiles (Cambridge UP 1987).
  • Mitchel, Arthur, Government in Ireland: Dail Eireann 1919-1922 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1995).
  • Mokyr, Joseph, Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy 1800-1845 (London: Allen & Unwin 1985).
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  • Moody, T. W. ed., The Fenian Movement (Cork: Mercier Press 1968).
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