Ian Delahanty
Prof. Rob Savage
Fall 2008
PhD Comprehensive Exam
Post-Famine Irish History
I- Rebellion and War in Post-Famine Ireland
Augusteijn, Joost. From Public Defense to Guerilla Warfare: The Experience of
Ordinary Volunteers in the Irish War of Independence, 1916-1921. Dublin,
2006.
Barry, Tom. Guerilla Days in Ireland. Dublin, 1949.
Bartlett, Thomas and Jeffery, Keith. A Military History of Ireland. Cambridge, 1996.
________. “The Irish Soldier in India,” in Michael and Denis Holmes, eds., Ireland and
India: Connections, Comparisons, Contrasts (Dublin, 1997), pp. 12-28.
Bruce, Steve. The Red Hand: Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. Oxford,
1992.
Denman, Terence. “The Catholic Irish Soldier in the First World War: The ‘Racial’
Environment,” Irish Historical Studies, xxvii, 108 (November, 1991).
English, Richard. “ ‘The Inborn Hate of Things English’: Ernie O’Malley and the
Irish Revolution,” Past and Present, 151 (May 1996).
Garvin, Tom. Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland, 1858-1928. Oxford, 1987.
Hart, Peter. “The Geography of Revolution in Ireland, 1917-1923,” Past and Present,
155 (1997).
________. The IRA and its Enemies: Violence and Community in County Cork, 19161923. Oxford, 1998.
Karsten, Peter, ‘Irish Soldiers in the British Army, 1792-1922: Suborned or
Subordinate?’ Journal of Social History, XVII (no. 1, 1983), pp. 31-64.
O’Halpin, Eunan. Defending Ireland: The Irish State and its Enemies Since 1922.
Valiulis, Maryann Gialanella. Almost a Rebellion: The Army Mutiny of 1924. Cork, 1985.
II- Post-Famine Irish Society
Akenson, Donald Harman. The Irish Education Experiment: The National System of
Education in the Nineteenth Century. London, 1970.
Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story (London: Pimlico, 1999).
Elliot, Marianne. The Catholics of Ulster. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Foster, Roy. Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2008.
Larkin, Emmet. The Roman Catholic Church and the Creation of the Modern Irish State,
1878-1886. Dublin, 1975.
Luddy, Maria. Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2007.
McEwen, Alex. Public Policy in a Divided Society: Schooling, Culture, and Identity
In Northern Ireland.
Rafferty, Oliver. The Church, the State and the Fenian, 1861-1875. London, 1999.
Ryan, Louise and Margaret Ward, eds. Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens.
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007.
III- Land, Labor, and Politics
Bew, Paul. Land and the National Question, 1858-82. Dublin, 1979.
Boyle, John W. The Irish Labor Movement in the Nineteenth Century. Washington, D.C.,
1988.
Clark, Samuel and Donnelly Jr., James S., eds. Irish Peasants: Violence and Political
Unrest, 1780-1914. Manchester, 1983.
Comerford, R.V. The Fenians in Context: Irish Politics and Society, 1848-1882. Dublin,
1985.
Cronin, Mike. “The Socio-Economic Background and Membership of the Blueshirt
Movement,” Irish Historical Studies, xxix, 114 (November, 1914).
Guinnane, Timothy. The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural
Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1997.
Jordan, Donald. Land and Popular Politics in Ireland: County Mayo from the Plantation
To the Land War. Cambridge, 1994.
Lane, Fintan and Donal O Drisceoil, eds. Politics and the Irish Working Class, 18301945. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Maguire, Martin. “The Organisation and Activism of Dublin’s Protestant Working Class,
1883-1935,” Irish Historical Studies, xxix, 113, (May 1994).
Scally, Robert, The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine, and Emigration New
York: 1995.
IV- Nationalism, Identity, and Ideology
Bew, Paul. Ideology and the Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism,
1912-1916. Oxford, 1994.
Bradshaw, Brendan. “Nationalism and Historical Scholarship in Modern Ireland,” Irish
Historical Studies, XXVI, 104 (November 1989).
Collins, Peter, ed. Nationalism and Unionism: Conflict in Ireland, 1885-1921. Belfast,
1994.
Daly, Mary. Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922-1939. Dublin,
1992.
Foster, Roy. “History and the Irish Question.” Transactions of the Royal Historical
Society. Fifth Series, Vol. 33. 1983.
Ward, Margaret. Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 2nd ed.
London, 1989.
V: Ireland and the British Empire (with a focus on migration)
Akenson, Donald, The Irish Diaspora: A Primer (Ontario and Belfast, 1996).
Delaney, Enda. Demography, State and Society: Irish Migration to Britain, 1921-71
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000.
________. The Irish in Post-War Britain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Donnelly, James S. Jr., “’Irish Property Must Pay for Irish Poverty’: British Public
Opinion and the Great Irish Famine,” in Chris Morash and Richard Hayes, eds.,
Fearful Realities: New Perspectives on the Famine (Dublin, 1996).
Foster, R.F. Paddy and Mr. Punch: Connections in Irish and English History. London,
1993.
Kenny, Kevin, ed. Ireland and the British Empire. New York: Oxford University Press,
2004.
MacRaild, Donald, ed., The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Immigrants in the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Dublin, 2000).
VI: Culture (Sport, Entertainment, Intellectual)
Hutchinson, John. The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism: The Gaelic Revival and the
Creation of the Irish Nation State. London, 1987.
Mandle, W.F. The Gaelic Athletic Association and Irish Nationalist Politics, 1884-1924.
Dublin, 1987.
Savage, Robert. Ireland in the New Century: Politics, Culture, and Identity. Portland,
OR: Four Courts Press, 2003.
_________. Irish Television: The Political and Social Origins. Westport, CT: Praeger,
1996.
Smith, Nadia Clare. Dorothy Macardle: A Life. Dublin, 2007.
VII: General
Ferriter, Diarmaid. The Transformation of Ireland: 1900-2000. London: Profile Books,
2004.
Lee, Joseph. Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1989.
Jackson, Alvin. Ireland, 1798-1998: Politics and War. Malden, MA: Blackwell
Publishers, 1999.
Foster, Roy F. Luck and the Irish. 2008.