Erica Foss
Modern Ireland Reading List
Comprehensive Exams
Dr. Savage
22 February 2012
GENERAL HISTORIES
Bradshaw “Nationalism and Historical Scholarship in Modern Ireland”
Ferriter, Diarmaid. The Transformation of Ireland: 1900-2000. London: Profile Books,
2004.
Foster, Roy F. Luck and the Irish. 2008.
Foster, R.F. “History and the Irish Question.”
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.
CLASS AND GENDER
Boyle, John W. The Irish Labor Movement in the Nineteenth Century. Washington, D.C.,
1988.
Lane, Fintan and Donal O Drisceoil, eds. Politics and the Irish Working Class, 18301945. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Luddy, Maria. Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2007.
Ward, Margaret. Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 2nd ed.
London, 1989.
SOCIETY, IDENTITY, AND POPULAR CULTURE
Elliot, Marianne. When God Took Sides.
Ferriter, Diarmaid. Judging Dev.
Hart, Peter. The IRA and its Enemies.
Kenny, Kevin, ed. Ireland and the British Empire. New York: Oxford University Press,
2004.
McKay, Susan. Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People. New York: Blackstaff P,
2006.
Nelson, Sarah. Ulster’s Uncertain Defenders: Protestant Political, Paramilitary, and
Community Groups, and the Northern Ireland Conflict. New York: Syracuse University
Press, 1984.
O'Connor, Fionnuala. In search of a state Catholics in Northern Ireland. Belfast:
Blackstaff P, 1993.
Taylor, Peter. Loyalists: War and Peace in Northern Ireland. London: Bloomsbury,
1999.
Wills, Clair. That Neutral Island.