The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History
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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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History
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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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199549344
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/27/2014
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 802
Product dimensions: 6.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 2.00(d)

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).

Table of Contents

List of ContributorsA. INTRODUCTIONIrish History in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Alvin JacksonB. THEMATIC STUDIES1. Nation, Empire and Landscape1. Patriotism and Nationalism, Sean Connolly2. Loyalists and Unionists, Alvin Jackson3. Colonised and Colonisers, Stephen Howe4. Landscape and Politics, Yvonne Whelan2. People, Culture and the Economy5. Land and the People, Terence Dooley6. Migration and Diaspora, Enda Delaney7. Business and Industry, Philip Ollerenshaw8. Faith in Ireland, Marianne Elliott9. Gender and Irish History, Maria Luddy10. Irish Literary Culture in English, Margaret Kelleher11. Visual Arts, Fintan Cullen12. Material Cultures, Toby Barnard13. Film and Broadcast Media, Robert SavageC. PERIOD STUDIES1. The Third Kingdom: Ireland, c.1580-169014. Plantation, 1580-1641, Tadhg O hAnnrachain15. Confederation and Union, 1641-60, Jane Ohlmeyer16. Ireland and Continental Europe, c.1600-1750, Nicholas Canny17. Restoration Ireland, 1660-88, Ted McCormick18. The War of the Three Kings, 1688-91, Robert Armstrong2. Ascendancy Ireland (1691-1801)19. Early Hanoverian Ireland, 1690-1750, David Hayton20. Famine and Economic Change, David Dickson21. Irish Language Sources for the History of Early Modern Ireland, Eamonn O Ciardha22. Ireland and the Atlantic World, 1690-1840, Maurice Bric23. Patriot Politics, 1750-91, James Kelly24. Rising and Union, 1791-1801, Patrick Geoghegan3. British State and Catholic Nation (1800-1920)25. The Emergence of the Irish Catholic Nation, 1750-1850, Thomas Bartlett26. Famine and Land, 1845-80, Peter Gray27. Emigration, 1800-1920, Don MacRaild28. Home Rule and its Enemies, Matthew Kelly29. Ireland and the First World War, Tim Bowman30. The Irish Revolution, 1916-23, Niall Whelehan4. Dominion, Republic and Home Rule: The Two Irelands, 1920-200831. Southern Ireland, 1922-32: A Free State?, Fearghal McGarry32. "De Valera's Ireland", 1932-58, Diarmaid Ferriter33. Unionism, 1921-72, Henry Patterson34. Ireland and World War II, Eunan O'Halpin35. The Lemass Legacy and the Making of Contemporary Ireland, 1958-2011, Brian Girvin36. The Long War and its Aftermath, 1969-2007, Paul Arthur
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