CONTENTS

Acknowledgments	VII
Contributors	IX
Maps	XIII
INTRODUCTION Richard Bourke	1
PART 1 NARRATIVE and EVENTS
1.  CONQUEST, CIVILIZATION, COLONIZATION: IRELAND, 1540–1660 Jane Ohlmeyer	21
2.  ASCENDANCY IRELAND, 1660–1800 Ultán Gillen	48
3.  IRELAND UNDER THE UNION, 1801–1922 John Bew	74
4.  INDEPENDENT IRELAND Fearghal McGarry	109
5.  NORTHERN IRELAND SINCE 1920 Niall Ó Dochartaigh	141
6.  TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY IRELAND Diarmaid Ferriter	168
PART 2 TOPICS, THEMES, and DEVELOPMENTS
7.  INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: WILLIAM KING TO EDMUND BURKE Daniel Carey	193
8.  CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS: YOUNG IRELAND TO YEATS David Dwan	217
9.  IRISH MODERNISM AND ITS LEGACIES Lauren Arrington	236
10.  MEDIA AND CULTURE IN IRELAND, 1960–2008 Maurice Walsh	253
11.  HISTORIOGRAPHY Richard Bourke	271
12.  RELIGION Ian McBride	292
13.  THE IRISH LANGUAGE Vincent Morley	320
14.  IRELAND AND EMPIRE Jill C. Bender	343
15.  WOMEN AND GENDER IN MODERN IRELAND Catriona Kennedy	361
16.  POLITICAL VIOLENCE Marc Mulholland	382
17.  FAMINE Ciara Boylan	403
18.  ECONOMY IN INDEPENDENT IRELAND Andy Bielenberg	425
19.  NATIONALISMS Matthew Kelly	447
20.  FEMINISM Maria Luddy	470
21.  DIASPORA Enda Delaney	490
Index	509