The Cambridge history of Ireland

Author(s)

• Bartlett, Thomas
• Smith, Brendan
• Ohlmeyer, Jane H.
• Kelly, James

Bibliographic Information

The Cambridge history of Ireland

[general editor, Thomas Bartlett]

Cambridge University Press, 2018

• : set : hardback
• v. 1 : hardback
• v. 2 : hardback
• v. 3 : hardback
• v. 4 : hardback

Other Title

History of Ireland

Note

v. 1. 600-1550 / edited by Brendan Smith

v. 2. 1550-1730 / edited by Jane Ohlmeyer

v. 3. 1730-1880 / edited by James Kelly

v. 4. 1880 to the present / edited by Thomas Bartlett

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 : hardback ISBN 9781107110670

Description

The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. The contributors are leading experts in their fields, and present their original interpretations in a fresh and accessible manner. New perspectives are offered on the politics, artistic culture, religious beliefs and practices, social organisation and economic activity that prevailed on the island in these centuries. At each turn the question is asked: to what extent were these developments unique to Ireland? The openness of Ireland to outside influences, and its capacity to influence the world beyond its shores, are recurring themes. Underpinning the book is a comparative, outward-looking approach that sees Ireland as an integral but exceptional component of medieval Christian Europe.

Table of Contents

• Introduction Brendan Smith
• Part I. Christianity, Invasion and Conquest: 600-1200: 1. Communities and their landscapes Edel Bhreatnach
• 2. Learning, imagination and belief John Carey
• 3. Art and society Jane Hawkes
• 4. The Scandinavian intervention Alex Woolf
• 5. Perception and reality: Ireland c.980-1229 Maire Ni Mhaonaigh
• 6. Conquest and conquerors Colin Veach
• Part II. English Lordship in Ireland: 1200-1550: 7. Angevin Ireland Nicholas Vincent
• 8. The height of English power: 1250-1320 Beth Hartland
• 9. Disaster and opportunity: 1320-1450 Brendan Smith
• 10. The political recovery of Gaelic Ireland Katharine Simms
• 11. Continuity and change: 1470-1550 Christopher Maginn
• 12. Late medieval Ireland in a wider world Michael Bennett
• Part III. Religion, Economy and Culture, 1000-1550: 13. The Church, 1050-1460 Colman O Clabaigh
• 14. The economy Margaret Murphy
• 15. Gaelic culture and society Katharine Simms
• 16. The structure of politics in theory and practice, 1210-1541 Peter Crooks
• 17. Material culture Rachel Moss
• 18. The onset of religious reform: 1460-1550 Mary Ann Lyons
• 19. Contexts, divisions and unities: perspectives from the Later Middle Ages Robin Frame.

Volume

v. 4 : hardback ISBN 9781107113541

Description

This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scholarship and research, the many contributions from experts in their field offer detailed and fresh perspectives on key areas of Irish social, economic, religious, political, demographic, institutional and cultural history. By situating the Irish story, or stories - as for much of these decades two Irelands are in play - in a variety of contexts, Irish and Anglo-Irish, but also European, Atlantic and, latterly, global. The result is an insightful interpretation on the emergence and development of Ireland during these often turbulent decades. Copiously illustrated, with special features on images of the 'Troubles' and on Irish art and sculpture in the twentieth century, this volume will undoubtedly be hailed as a landmark publication by the most recent generation of historians of Ireland.

Table of Contents

• Introduction Thomas Bartlett
• Foreword
• 1. Ireland 1880-2016: negotiating sovereignty and freedom Gearoid O Tuathaigh
• Part I. Ireland 1880-1923: 2. Radical nationalisms Matthew Kelly
• 3. Home rulers at Westminster, 1880-1814 Conor Mulvagh
• 4. The origins, politics and culture of Irish Unionism c.1880-1916 Alvin Jackson
• 5. Irish land questions 1879-1923 Terence Dooley
• 6. Social conditions in Ireland Caitriona Clear
• 7. The Irish literary revival Roy Foster
• 8. The Culture War: the Gaelic League and Irish-Ireland Brian O Conchobair
• Part II. War, Revolution and the Two Irelands, 1914-1945: 9. Ireland and the Great War David Fitzpatrick
• 10. Revolution, 1916-1923 Fearghal McGarry
• 11. Politics, economy, society: Northern Ireland 1920-1939 Susannah Riordan
• 12. Politics, economy and society in the Irish Free State 1922-39 Anne Dolan
• 13. Neutrality and belligerence: Ireland, 1939-1945 Philip Ollerenshaw
• Part III. Contemporary Ireland, 1945-2016: 14. Stability, crisis and change in post-war Ireland 1945-1973 Brian Girvin
• 15. Ireland transformed? Modernisation, secularisation and conservatism since 1973 Brian Girvin
• 16. War and peace in Northern Ireland 1965-2016 Paul Bew and John Bew
• 17. The Irish economy 1973 to 2016 John O'Hagan
• 18. Migration since 1914 Mary E. Daly
• 19. Broadcasting on the island of Ireland Robert J. Savage
• 20. Popular culture in Ireland, 1880-2016 Paul Rouse
• 21. Irish foreign policy 1919 to 1973 Michael Kennedy
• Part IV. The Long View, Ireland 1880-2016: 22. The family in Ireland, 1880-2015 Lindsey Earner-Byrne
• 23. Institutional space and the geography of confinement in Ireland Catherine Cox
• 24. A short history of Irish memory in the long twentieth century Guy Beiner
• 25. Catholicism in Ireland 1880-2016: rise, ascendancy and retreat Daithi O Corrain
• 26. Art and architecture in Ireland, 1880-2016 Paula Murphy
• 27. Ireland looking outwards 1880-2016 Eunan O' Halpin
• Endword.

Volume

v. 3 : hardback ISBN 9781107115200

Description

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad. It provides new and original interpretations of a critical phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

• Introduction. Interpreting late early modern Ireland James Kelly
• Part I. Politics c.1730-c.1845: 1. Irish Jacobitism, 1691-1790 Vincent Morley
• 2. The politics of Protestant Ascendancy, 1730-1790 James Kelly
• 3. Ireland during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, 1793-1815 Thomas Bartlett
• 4. The impact of O'Connell, 1815-1850 Patrick M. Geoghegan
• 5. Popular politics, 1815-1845 Maura Cronin
• Part II. Economy and Demography: 6. Society and economy in the long eighteenth century David Dickson
• 7. The Irish economy, 1815-1880: agricultural transition, the communications revolution and the limits of industrialisation Andy Bielenberg
• 8. Population and emigration, 1730-1845 Brian Gurrin
• 9. Women, men and the family, 1730-1880 Sarah-Anne Buckley
• Part III. Religion: 10. The Catholic Church and Catholics in an era of sanctions and restraints, 1690-1790 Thomas O'Connor
• 11. The re-energising of Catholicism, 1790-1880 Colin Barr
• 12. Protestant dissenters, c.1690-1800 Ian McBride
• 13. Protestantism in the nineteenth century: revival and crisis Andrew R. Holmes
• Part IV. Shaping Society: 14. Language and literacy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Aidan Doyle
• 15. Futures past: enlightenment and antiquarianism in the eighteenth century Michael Brown and Lesa Ni Mhunghaile
• 16. Art and architecture in the long eighteenth century Christine Casey
• 17. Civil society, 1700-1850 Martyn J. Powell
• 18. Sport and recreation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries James Kelly
• 19. Bourgeois Ireland, or, on the benefits of keeping one's hands clean Ciaran O Neill
• 20. The growth of the state in the nineteenth century Virginia Crossman
• Part V. The Irish Abroad: 21. The Irish in Europe in the eighteenth century, 1691-1815 Liam Chambers
• 22. 'Irish' migration to America in the eighteenth century? Or the strange case for the 'Scots/Irish' Patrick Griffin
• 23. Ireland and the empire in the nineteenth century Barry Crosbie
• Part VI. The Great Famine and its Aftermath: 24. The Great Famine, 1845-1850 Peter Gray
• 25. Irish emigration, c.1845-1900 Kevin Kenny
• 26. Post-famine politics, 1850-1879 Douglas Kanter
• 27. Afterword Toby Barnard.

Volume

v. 2 : hardback ISBN 9781107117631

Description

This volume offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early modern Ireland and situates these discussions in global and comparative contexts. The opening chapters focus on 'Politics' and 'Religion and War' and offer a chronological narrative, informed by the re-interpretation of new archives. The remaining chapters are more thematic, with chapters on 'Society', 'Culture', and 'Economy and Environment', and often respond to wider methodologies and historiographical debates. Interdisciplinary cross-pollination - between, on the one hand, history and, on the other, disciplines like anthropology, archaeology, geography, computer science, literature and gender and environmental studies - informs many of the chapters. The volume offers a range of new departures by a generation of scholars who explain in a refreshing and accessible manner how and why people acted as they did in the transformative and tumultuous years between 1550 and 1730.

Table of Contents

• Part I. Introduction: 1. Ireland in the early modern world Jane Ohlmeyer
• Part II. Politics: 2. Politics, policy and power, 1550-1603 Ciaran Brady
• 3. Political change and social transformation, 1603-1641 David Edwards
• 4. Politics, 1641-1660 John Cunningham
• 5. Restoration politics, 1660-1691 Ted McCormack
• 6. Politics, 1692-1730 Charles Ivar McGrath
• 7. The emergence of a protestant society, 1691-1730 D. W. Hayton
• Part III. Religion and War: 8. Counter reformation: the Catholic Church, 1550-1641 Tadhg O Hannrachain
• 9. Protestant reformations, 1550-1641 Colm Lennon
• 10. Establishing a confessional Ireland, 1641-1691 Robert Armstrong
• 11. Wars of religion, 1641-1691 John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan
• Part IV. Society: 12. Society, 1550-1730 Clodagh Tait
• 13. Men, women, children and the family, 1550-1730 Mary O'Dowd
• 14. Domestic materiality in Ireland, 1550-1730 Susan Flavin
• 15. Irish art and architecture, 1550-1730 Jane Fenlon
• 16. Ireland in the Atlantic world: migration and cultural transfer William O'Reilly
• Part V. Culture: 17. Language, print and literature in Irish, 1550-1630 Marc Caball
• 18. Language, literature and print in Irish, 1630-1730 Bernadette Cunningham
• 19. The emergence of English print and literature, 1630-1730 Deana Rankin
• 20. A world of honour: aristocratic mentalite Brendan Kane
• 21. Irish political thought and intellectual history, 1550-1730 Ian Campbell
• Part VI. Economy and Environment: 22. Economic life, 1550-1730 Raymond Gillespie
• 23. Plantations, 1550-1641 Annaleigh Margery
• 24. The down survey and the Cromwellian land settlement Micheal O Siochru and David Brown
• 25. Environmental history of Ireland, 1550-1730 Frank Ludlow and Arlene Crampsie
• Part VII. Afterword: 26. Interpreting the history of early modern Ireland: from the sixteenth century to the present Nicholas Canny.

Volume

: set : hardback ISBN 9781107167292

Description

This authoritative, accessible and engaging four-volume history vividly presents the Irish story - or stories - from c.600 to the present, within its broader Atlantic, European, imperial and global contexts. While the volumes benefit from a strong political narrative framework, they are distinctive also in including essays that address the full range of social, economic, religious, linguistic, military, cultural, artistic and gender history, and in challenging traditional chronological boundaries in a manner that offers new perspectives and insights. Each volume examines Ireland's development within a distinct period, and offers a complete and rounded picture of Irish life, while remaining sensitive to the unique Irish experience. Bringing together an international team of experts, this landmark history both reflects recent developments in the field and sets the agenda for future study.

Table of Contents

• Part I. Christianity, Invasion and Conquest
• Part II. English Lordship in Ireland
• Part III. Religion, Economy and Culture, 1000-1550
• Part I. Introduction
• Part II. Politics
• Part III. Religion and War
• Part IV. Society
• Part V. Culture
• Part VI. Economy and Environment
• Part VII. Afterword
• Part I. Politics c.1730-c.1845
• Part II. Economy and Demography
• Part III. Religion
• Part IV. Shaping Society
• Part V. The Irish Abroad
• Part VI. The Great Famine and its Aftermath
• Part I. Ireland 1880-1923
• Part II. War, Revolution and the Two Irelands, 1914-1945.

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Details

• NCID: BB26002261
• ISBN:
  • 9781107167292
  • 9781107110670
  • 9781107117631
  • 9781107115200
  • 9781107113541
• LCCN: 2017022405
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: 4 v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DA910
  • DC23 : 941.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ireland -- History