Books - General Histories

This is quite a mixed bunch.  It includes general histories which include the 1919-1923 period or on key background events.  Also, some books on outcomes of the period or comparison with similar conflicts.

Author/ Editor Name Year Where? Publisher
Akenson, Donald Harman Education and Enmity: The Control of Schooling in Northern Ireland, 1920-1950 1973 Newtown Abbot  
Bardon, J Belfast - an Illustrated History 1982 Belfast  
Bardon, J A History of Ulster 1992 Belfast  
Barrett, J J  In the Name of the Game 1997 Bray Dub Press
Beckett, J The Making of Modern Ireland 1981 London  
Berresford Ellis, Peter A History of the Irish Working Class 1973 New York George Braziller
Bew, Paul; Gibbon, P. & Patterson, Henry The State in Northern Ireland, 1921-72 1979 Manchester  
Bew, Paul; Gibbon, P. & Patterson, Henry Northern Ireland 1921-94 - Political Forces and Social classes 1995 London  
Bew, Paul; Hazelkorn, Ellen & Patterson, Henry The Dynamics of Irish Politics 1989 London Lawrence & Wishart
Bowden, Tom The Breakdown in Public Security: The Case of Ireland 1919-1921, and Palestine, 1936-1939 1977 London  
Bowman, John De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-1973 1982   Oxford
Bowyer Bell, J The Secret Army: The IRA 1916-1979 1989 Swords Poolbeg
Boyce, D George  Nationalism in Ireland 1995 London Routledge
Boyce, D George (Ed) The Revolution in Ireland 1879-1923 1988 London  
Brady, Ciaran (Ed) Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism 1994 Dublin  Irish Academic Press
Buckland, Patrick Irish Unionism 1: The Anglo-Irish and the New Ireland 1885-1922 1972 Dublin Gill & Macmillan
Buckland, Patrick Irish Unionism 2: Ulster Unionism and the Origins of Northern Ireland 1886-1922 1973 Dublin Gill & Macmillan
Buckland, Patrick The Factory of Grievances: Devolved Government in Northern Ireland, 1921-1939 1979 Dublin  
Buckland, Patrick A History of Northern Ireland  1981 Dublin  
Budge, I. and O'Leary, C. Belfast, approach to crisis - a study of Belfast politics 1603-1970 1972 London  
Butler, David and Freman, Jennie British Political Facts 1900-1960 1961 New York St Martin's
Canning, Paul British Policy towards Ireland: 1921-1941 1985 Oxford  
Caulfield, Max The Easter Rebellion 1995 Dublin Gill & Macmillan
Collins, Peter (Ed) Nationalism and Unionism: Conflict in Ireland, 1885-1921 1994 Belfast  
Coogan, Tim Pat Ireland since the Rising 1966 New York Praeger
Cowling, Maurice The Impact of Labour 1920-24: The Beginning of Modern British Politics 1971 Cambridge  
Craig, F W S (ed) British Parliamentary Results, 1918-1949 1969 Glasgow  
Crawford, E. Margaret Counting the People - A Survey of Irish Censuses, 1813-1911 2003 Dublin Four Courts Press 
Curtis, L The Causes of Ireland  - from the United Irishmen to Partition 1994 Belfast  
Dangerfield, George The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations 1977 London  
Doyle, Jennifer; Clarke, Francis; Connaughton, Eibhlis and Somerville, Orna An Introduction to The Bureau of Military History 1913-1921 2002 Dublin Military Archives
English, Richard Armed Struggle - a History of the IRA 2003 London  
Fanning, Ronan Independent Ireland 1983 Dublin  
Ferguson, Niall (Ed) Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals 1997 London  
Ferriter, Diarmaid The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 2004 London Profile Books
Fitzpatrick, David  The Two Irelands 1912-1939 1998 Oxford OUP
Foster, Roy F Modern Ireland 1600-1972 1989 London Penguin
Foster, Roy F Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History 1993 London  
Fraser, T.G. Partition in Ireland, India and Palestin: Theory and Practice 1984 London  
Fraser, T.G. Ireland in Conflict 1922-98 2000 London  
Garvin, Tom Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928 2005 Oxford Gill & Macmillan
Garvin, Tom The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics 2005 Dublin  Gill & Macmillan
Gaughan, J Anthony Memoirs of Constable Jeremiah Mee, RIC 1973 Dublin  
Gregory, Adrian & Pašeta, Senia (Eds) Ireland and the Great War 'A War to Unite Us All' 2002 Manchester Manchester University Press
Grob-Fitzgibbon, Benjamin  Turning points of the Irish Revolution : the British government, intelligence, and the cost of indifference, 1912-1921 2007 Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan
Harkness, D. Northern Ireland since 1920 1983 Dublin  
Hennessy, T. A History of Northern Ireland 1920-96 1997 Dublin  
Hoppen, K. Theodore Ireland since 1800 - Conflict and Conformity 1999 Harrow Pearson
Jeffrey, Keith Ireland and the Great War 2000 Cambridge  
Kearns, Kevin C Dublin Tenement Life - An Oral History 1994 Dublin Gill & Macmillan
Kennedy, Dennis The Widening Gulf: Northern Attitudes to the Independent Irish State 1919-1949 1988 Belfast The Blackstaff Press
Keogh, Dermot  Twentieth-Century Ireland: Nation and State 1994 Dublin   
King, Seamus J A History of Hurling 1996 Dublin  Gill & Macmillan
Lee, JJ Ireland 1912-1985 1989 Cambridge  
Litton, Helen Irish Rebellions: 1798 - 1916 1998 Dublin Wolfhound
Lynch, Diarmuid The IRB and the 1916 Insurrection 1957 Cork Mercier Press
Lyons, F S L  Ireland since the Famine      
Mansergh,Nicholas The Irish Question 1840-1921 1965 London Allen and Unwin
McDowell, R B The Irish Convention 1917-1918 1970 London  
McManus, Ruth Dublin 1910-1940 - Shaping the City & Suburbs 2002 Dublin  Four Courts Press
Mitchell, Arthur and O'Snodaigh Padraig Irish Political Documents 1916-49 1989 Dublin  
Mowat, C L  Britain between the Wars 1955 London Methuen
Murphy, John A Ireland in the Twentieth Century 1975 Dublin  
Nowlan, Kevin D (Ed) The Making of 1916: Studies in the History of the Rising 1969 Dublin The Stationary Office
O'Brion, Leon Dublin Castle and the 1916 Rising 1966 Dublin Helicon
O'Connor, Emmet Syndicalism in Ireland 1988 Cork  
O'Connor, Emmet A Labour History of Ireland 1824-1960 1992 Dublin   
O'Day, Alan Irish Home Rule 1867-1920 1998 Manchester Manchester University Press
O'Farrell, Mick A Walk though Rebel Dublin 1916 1999 Cork Mercier Press
O'Halloran, Claire Partition and the Limits of Irish Nationalism 1987   Gill & Macmillan
O'Halpin, Eunan Defending Ireland 1999 Oxford OUP
O'Leary, Cornelius The Irish Republic 1961 Notre Dame, Ind University of Notre Dame Press
O'Mahoney, Sean Frongoch: University of Revolution 1987 Dublin  
O'Sullivan, Donal The Irish Free State and its Senate 1940 London Faber and Faber
Pašeta, Senia Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland's Social Elite, 1879-1922 1999 Cork Cork University Press
Patterson, Henry Class Conflict and Sectarianism 1980 Belfast  
Patterson, Henry The Politics of Illusion 1989 London Hutchinson Radius
Pearson, Peter The Heart of Dublin 2000 Dublin O'Brien Press
Pollard, Major H. B. C. The Secret Societies of Ireland 1923 London Philip Allan
Regan, J The Irish Counter Revolution, 1921-1936 1999 Dublin   
Ryan, Annie Witnesses - Inside the Easter Rising 2005 Dublin Liberties Press
Schmitt, P The Irony of Irish Democracy  1973 Lexington  
Stanley,Derek Images of Ireland: Central Dublin 1999 Dublin Gill & Macmillan
Strauss, Eric Irish Nationalism and British Democracy 1951 New York Columbia University Press
Taillon, Ruth The Women of 1916 1999 Belfast Beyond the Pale Publications
Taylor, A J P  English History 1914-1945 1965 Oxford  
Taylor, A J P (Ed) Llyod George: Twelve Essays 1971 London   
Townsend, Charles Political Violence in Ireland 1984 Oxford  
Townsend, Charles Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion 2005 London Penguin/Allan Lane
Walker, Brian (Ed) Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1918-92 1992 Dublin Royal Irish Academy/Institute of Irish Studies
  1916 Rebellion Handbook 1998   Mourne River Press

 

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