Bibliography of Northern Ireland

A B C D E
F G H J K
L M Mac/Mc O P
Q R S T U
V W X Y Z

A
  • Adamson, Ian, The Cruitin: The Ancient Kindred (Pretani Press 1974).
  • Adamson, Ian, The Identity of Ulster: The Land, the Language and the People (Pretani Press 1983), 133pp.
  • Adamson, Ian, The Ulster People: Ancient, Medieval and Modern (Pretani Press 1991).
  • Akenson, Donald Harman, God’s People, Convenant and Land in S. africa, Israel and Ulster (Cornell UP ?1993).
  • Arthur, Paul, Government and Politics in Northern Ireland (Longman 1980).
  • Asher, Michael, Shoot to Kill: A Soldier’s Journey through Violence [in N. Ireland] ((Viking 1990).
  • Aughey, Arthur., Ulster Under Siege: Ulster Unionism and the Anglo-Irish Agreement (Blackstaff 1989).

 

B
  • Bardon, Jonathan, A History of Ulster (Belfast: Blackstaff 1993), 914pp.
  • ——, Northern Ireland in the Second World War (Ulster Hist. Found. 1995).
  • Bartlett, Thomas, ‘Defenders and Defenderism in 1795’, in Irish Historical Studies (1985) [c.375].
  • Belfrage, Sally, Living with War: A Belfast Year (London: Viking 1987) [in US as The Crack].
  • Bell, Desmond, Acts of Union: Youth Culture and Sectarianism in Northern Ireland (London 1990).
  • Bell, J Bowyer, The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan ?1993), 872pp.
  • ——, The Secret Army: The IRA 1916-1979 [3rd edn.] (Academic Press 1979).
  • Bell, Robert, Robert Johnstone, and Robin Wilson, eds., Troubled Times (Belfast: Blackstaff/Dufour 1992), chronicle of 20 years Fortnight coverage.
  • Betts, John, The Story of the Irish Society, being a brief historical account of the foundation and work of the Honourable the Irish Society of London [centenary 1913] (2nd ed. rep. 1921), 90pp., + Memoranda of Principal events 1609-1920, xxixpp.
  • Bew, Paul, and Gordon Gillespie, Northern Ireland: A chronology of the troubles (Dublin: Gil & Macmillan 1993), 344pp.
  • ——, with Peter Gibbon and Henry Patterson, The State in Northern Ireland: Political Forces and Social Classes (Manchester UP 1979).
  • —, Henry Patterson, and Paul Teague, Northern Ieland: Between War and Peace: The Political Future of Northern Ireland (London: Lawrence & Wishart 1997), 231pp.
  • Birrell, Derek, and Alan Murie, Policy and Government in Northern Ireland: Lessons in Devolution (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1980).
  • Black, R D C, Economic Thought and the Irish Question 1817-1870 (Cambridge UP 1960).
  • Bloomfield, David, Peacemaking Strategies in Northern Ireland: Building Complementarity in Conflict Management Theory (NY: St Martin’s Press 1996), 256pp.
  • Bowman, J, De Valera and the Ulster Question (Oxford: OUP 1989).
  • Brady, Ciaran & Raymond Gillespie, eds., Natives and Newcomers: Essays on the Making of Irish Colonial Society 1534-1641 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1986).
  • ——, Mary O’Dowd, Brian Walker (eds.), Ulster: An Illustrated History (London: B. T. Batsford Ltd.,1989).
  • Brennan, Paul, The Conflict in Northern Ireland (Paris:Longman France 1992), 159pp.
  • Brown, Terence, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-1979 (Glasgow:Collins Fontana 1981).
  • Bruce, Steve, ‘Pro-State Terror: Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland [in Terrorism and Political Violence, 4] (1992), pp.67-88.
  • ——, God Save Ulster! Religion and Politics of Paisleyism (Oxford: OUP 1986).
  • ——, The Edge of the Union: The Ulster Loyalist Political Vision (Oxford: OUP 1994)..
  • ——, The Red Hand: Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland (Oxford: OUP 1992).
  • Buckland, Paytric., A History of Northern Ireland (Dub:Gill & Macmillan 1981).
  • Buckland, Patrick, The Factory of Grievances: Devolved Government in Northern Ireland 1921-39 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1979).

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C
  • Catterall, Peter, and Sean McDougall, The Northern Ireland Question in British Politics (London: Macmillan 1996), 242pp.
  • Clifford, Brendan, The Economics of Partition: a historical survey of Ireland in terms of political economy (Belfast: Athol Books 1992) 108pp.
  • Coogan, Tim Pat, The Troubles: Ireland’s Ordeal 1966-1995 and the search for peace (London: Hutchinson 1995).

D
  • Darby, J., Conflict in Northern Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1976).
  • Dillon, Martin, Dirty War (London 1990).
  • Dillon, Martin, The Shankhill Butchers: A Case Study of Mass Murder (London: Hutchinson 1989), ill.
  • Disturbances in Northern Ireland, Report of the Cameron Commission [appt. by Governor of NI] (HMSO 1969).
  • Dillon, Martin, and D. Lehane, Political Murder in Northern Ireland (London 1973).
  • Dunn, Seamus, ed., Facets of the Conflict in Northern Ireland (London: Macmillan 1995), 289pp.
  • Dunlop, John, A Precarious People (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1995), 144pp.
  • Dutton, David, His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition: the Unionist Party in Opposition ‘905-1915 (Liverpool UP ?1993).
  • Edwards, R W D, and M O’Dowd, Sources for Early Modern Irish History 1534-1641 (Cambridge UP 1985).
  • Evans, Estyn E., Northern Ireland, with a gazetteer by Hugh Shearman (Collins 1951), 92pp. ill.
  • Evans, Rosemary, The Visitor’s Guide to Northern Ireland (Hunter 1987)), ill.
  • Farrell, Michael, Arming the Protestants: The Formation of the Ulster Special Constabulary and the Royal Ulster Constabulary 1920-27 (London 1983).
  • Farrell, Michael, Northern Ireland: The Orange State (London:Pluto Press 1976; 1980; 1990; 1991).
  • Faulkner, Brian, Memoirs of a Statesman (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1978).
  • Feldman, Allen, Formation of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland (Chicago UP 1991).
  • Fisk, Robert, The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster (London 1975).
  • Flackes, W. D., Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-1988 (Dub:Gill & Macmillan 1989).
  • Fraser, Morris, Children in Conflict: A belfast Psychiatrist on N Ireland Children (London: Secker & Warburg 1973).
  • Gailey, Andrew, Jack Sayers: A Liberal Editor in Ulster, 1939-1969 (Belfast: QUB/IIS 1995).


G
  • Glassie, Henry, Passing the Time in Ballymenone; Culture and History of an Ulster Community ([1982] Bloomington UP 1996) [0 253 32921 3].
  • Graham, B. J., and Proudfoot, L. J., An Historical Geography of Ireland (Dublin: IAP; NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1993).
  • Green, E. R., ed., Essays in Scotch-Irish History (Ulster Historical Foundation [1992]), 126pp. [QUB lectures, 1965].
  • Gribben, H. D., The History of Water Power in Ulster (NY:Kelly 1969), ill.
  • Fulvio Grimaldi, and Susan North, Blood in the Streets (Derry: Guildhall Press 1998), 78pp.

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H
  • Hadden, T., and P. Hillyard, Justice in Northern Ireland: A Study in Social Confidence (London 1973).
  • Hadfield, B., Northern Ireland: Politics and the Constitution (Open UP 1992).
  • Hall, Michael, Ulster: The Hidden History (Island Pubs. 1989), 80pp.
  • Hamill, Desmond, Pig in the Middle: The Army in Northern Ireland 1969-1984 (Methuen 1985).
  • Hamilton, Ernest, The Soul of Ulster (Hurst & Blackett 1917).
  • Harbinson, J F, The Ulster Unionist Party 1882-1973 (Belfast: Blackstaff 1973).
  • Harkness, D., Northern Ireland since 1920 (Dublin 1983).
  • Hechter, Michael, Internal Colonisation: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development 1536-1966 (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1975).
  • Hennessy, Thomas, A History of Northern Irelnad, 1920-1996 (London: Macmillan 1997), 347pp.
  • Heslinga, M. W., The Irish Border as a Cultural Divide (Assen:Van Gotam 1962; 1971).
  • Hezlet, Sir A, The B Specials: A History of the Ulster Special Constabulary (Lon:Pan 1973).
  • Hunter, J., Unionism (Ulster Unionist Council 1993).
  • Hurd, Douglas, In Search of Peace ([London:] Little, Brown, 1997), 266pp.

J-K
  • Johnson, Paul, Ireland, Land of Troubles: A History from the 12th century to the Present Day (London: Eyre Methuen 1980), 224pp.
  • Kennedy, Dennis, The Widening Gulf: Northern Atttiudes to the Independent Irish State 1919-1949 (Belfast: Blackstaff 1988).
  • Killen, W D, Ecclesiastical Hisotry of Ireland, 2 vols (London: Macmillan 1875).

 

L
  • Longford, Lord, Peace by Ordeal (Lon:Sidgwick & Jackson 1972).
  • Loughrey, P., The People of Ireland (Appletree 1988).
  • Lucy, G., The Ulster Covenant (Antrim:New Ulster Publ. 1989).
  • Lyons, F. S. L., Culture and Anarchy in Ireland 1890-1939 [recte 1977] (Oxford: OUP 1979).
  • ——, Ireland Since the Famine (Collins Fontana 1973).
 
M
 
Mc-Mac
  • Mac Cuarta, Brian, ed., Ulster 1641: Aspects of the Rising (QUB 1993), 238pp. includes essays by John McCavitt, Phil Kilry, Grainne Henry, Michelle O’Riordan, Raymond Gillespie, Hillary Simms, Aidan Clark, Jacqueline Hill, and Toby Barnard. [SEE review articles by Brendan Bradshaw, Nov. TLS; and Hiram Morgan, Linenhall Review, Spring 1994.
  • McGarry, John and Brendan O’Leary, Explaining Northern Ireland: broken images (Blackwell 1996), 543pp.,.
  • McKittrick, David, Despatches from Belfast (Belf 1989).
  • ——, The Nervous Peace (Belfast: Blackstaff 1996), 174pp.
  • Mayhew, Sir Patrick, Culture and Identity, speech by the Sec. of State for N. Ireland [delivered at UUColeraine, 16 Dec. 1992].
  • Mallie, Eamoon, and David McKittrick, The Fight for Peace: The secret story behind the Irish peace Process (Heinemann 1996), 383[393]pp.
  • Mansergh, Nicholas, The Government of Northern Ireland: A Study in Devolution (1st edn.1936).
O
  • O’Day, Alan, ed. Reactions to Irish Nationalism, (Dublin 1987), incl. David Miller, ‘The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland: 1898-1918; Monsignor Patrick J. Corish, ‘Cardinal Cullen and the National Association’ [c127]; W F Mandle, ‘The IRB and the Beginnings of Gaelic Athletics Association’ [c.94].
  • O’Dowd, L., B. Rolston, and M Tomlinson, Northern Ireland: Between Civil Rights and Civil War (London 1980).
  • O’Leary, Brendan and John McGarry, The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern Ireland (1993): defines Northern troubles as ethnic conflict, and enlists terms such as settler colonialism, hegemonic control, arbitration [direct rule], and consocialistation [powersharing].
  • O’Malley, P., Uncivil Wars: Ireland Today (Belfast 1983).
  • O’Neill, Terence, Autobiography (Hart-Davis 1972).
  • Loughlin, James, Ulster Unionism and British National Identity since 1885 (Cassell 1995), 257pp.
  • O’Neill, Terence, Autobiography (Hart-Davis 1972).
  • O hUallachain, C., The Irish Language in Society (UU 1991).

 


P
  • Phoenix, Eamon, Nationalist Politics, Partitition and the Catholic Minority in Northern Ireland c.1890-1934 (Ulster Historical Foundation 1992) 300pp.
  • ——, ed., A Century of Northern Life: The Irish News and 100 Years of Ulster History, 1890s-1990s (Ulster Hist. Found. 1995).
  • Pollak, Andy, ed., A Citizen’s Enquiry: The Opsahl Report on Northern Ireland (Dublin 1993).
  • Pollard, H B C, The Secret Societies of Ireland (Phillip Allan 1922).
 
Q
  • Quinn, Dermot, Understanding Northern Ireland (Manchester: Baseline Books 1996), 124pp.
 
R
  • Robinson, Philip, The Plantation of Ulster (Ulster Historical Foundation 1992), 288pp.
  • Rose, Richard, Governing Without Consensus (Faber 1971).

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S
  • Smyth, C., Ireland’s Physical Force Tradition Today (Lurgan:Ulster Soc. 1989).
  • Stewart, A T Q, The Ulster Crisis (London: Faber & Faber 1967).
  • Stringer, Peter, and Gillian Robinson, eds., Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland 1990-1991 (Blackstaff/Dufour 1991) [initial analysis of selected items from NI model of British Social Attitudes series].
 
T
  • Trimble, David, The Foundation of Northern Ireland (Lurgan: Ulster Soc. 1991).
 
U
  • Ulster Since 1800: 12 Talks broadcast in the Northern Ireland Home Service of the BBC (1954), 133pp.; [F. S. L. Lyons; J. C. Beckett; E. E. R. Green; J. L. McCracken].
 
V

Veritas Splendor (Cath. Truth Soc. 1993).

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W
  • Walker, Brian, Ulster Politics: The Formative Years 1868-86 (1989).
  • ——, Parliamentary Election Results for Ireland 1801-1922 (1978).
  • ——, Parliamentary Election Results for Ireland 1918-92 (1992).
  • ——, Dancing to History’s Tune: History, Myths and Politics in Ireland (Belfast QUB 1996]/.
  • White, B., John Hume – Statesman of the Troubles (Belfast: Blackstaff 1984).
  • Whyte, John H., Church and State in Modern Ireland (Dub:gill & Macmillan 1980).
  • ——, Interpreting Northern Ireland (Oxford: OUP 1990).
  • Wichert, Sabine, Northern Ireland since 1945 (Lon:Longman 1991), 229pp.
  • Widgery, Lord John, Public Enquiry into the Events of Sunday 30 Jan 1972 which led to loss of life in Londonderry on that day 1972, 5 vols (1972); also Report of the tribunal appointed [&c] … loss of life in connection with the procession in Londonderry on that day (1972), 45pp.
  • Wilcock, David, N., James G Cruikshank and David N Wilcock, eds., Northern Ireland and Natural Resources (Belfast:QUB/NUU 1982), 294pp.
  • Williams, D Colwyn, Companies Act, Northern Ireland (1960), 17pp. [rep. from Chartered Secretary, Vol 1, May-June-July 1961 issues].
  • Williams, Maxine, Murder on the Rock: How the British Government Got Away with Murder (London: Larkin Publications 1989), 61pp.
  • Wilson, Alec, A War Memorial (Belfast: Mayne, Boyd & Son Ltd. 1919), 17pp.
  • ——, Belfast: Museum and art Gallery, the scope and value of an Irish provincial museum, address … in Central Public Lib., 8 Feb 1911 (Belfast:Baird 1911), 20pp. plates.
  • ——, Recent history in Ireland, with special reference to the Irish Industrial Movement: lecture, 14 April 1910 (Belfast:Mayne 1910), 29pp. [QUB lectures].
  • ——, Urban Elections in Ulster (1920; facs. rep. 1972), 63pp [orig. pub. as Report and analysis of PR Urban elections in Ulster held in 15 Jan 1920 (Belfast Proportional repres. Society of Ireland, Ulster Extension Committee 1920).
  • Wilson, Harold A, with Eileen Sullivan, eds., Conflict in Ireland (Florida UP 1976) 262pp.
  • Wilson, T., Ulster: Conflict and Consent (Oxford: Blackwell 1989).

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