Reading Lists

RECOMMENDED READING FOR IRISH STUDIES INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2019

Please note:

You may wish to read some background general readings in advance of the Summer School programme. We realise it may be difficult to obtain books but the websites listed will give a very useful introduction. It is entirely up to you how much or little material you want to read in advance. Core readings for classes are listed below.

GENERAL READINGS

Environment, Landscape and Archaeology of Ireland

Evans, E. The Personality of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History (Blackstaff Press, 1981)
Aalen, A. Whelan, K., Stout, M. (eds) Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape (Cork University Press 1997)
Mallory, J.P., The Origins of the Irish (Thames and Hudson, 2013)

History of Ireland

Bartlett, T., Ireland: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Bartlett, T. et al (eds), Cambridge History of Ireland (4 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Bew, P., Ireland, the Politics of Enmity, 1789-2006 (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Bourke, R. and McBride, I. (eds), Princeton History of Modern Ireland (Princeton University Press, 2016)
Comerford, R.V., Ireland: Inventing the Nation (Bloomsbury Press, 2003)
Ferriter, D., The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (Profile Books, 2004)
Fitzgerald, P. and Lambkin, B., Migration in Irish History 1607-2007 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Foster, R.F., Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (Penguin, 1988)
Jackson, A. (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Jackson, A., Ireland 1798-1998: Politics and War (Blackwell, 1999)

History of Northern Ireland / The Troubles

Bardon, J., A History of Ulster (Blackstaff Press, 1992)
Connolly, S.J. (ed.), Belfast 400: People, Place and History (Liverpool University Press, 2013)
English, R., Armed struggle: the history of the IRA (Pan Macmillan, 2012 edn)
Ferriter, D. The Border (Profile Books, 2019)
Hennessey, T., A history of Northern Ireland 1920-1996 (Gill & Macmillan, 1997)
McKittrick, D.and McVea, D., Making sense of the troubles (Blackstaff Press, 2000)
Mulholland, M., Northern Ireland: a very short introduction (Oxford University Press: 2003)

Literature of Ireland

Browne, T., Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2002 (Harper, 2004)
Cleary, J. and Connolly, C. (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge UP, 2005)
Deane, S., et al (eds), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Cork University Press)
Grene, N.and Morash, C. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Kiberd, D., Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (Jonathan Cape, 1995)
Murphy, J., Ireland: A Social, Cultural and Literary History 1791-1891 (Four Courts Press, 2003)
Ní Bhrolcháin, M., An introduction to early Irish literature (Four Courts Press, 2009)
Wright, J.(ed), A Companion to Irish Literature (Blackwell Press, 2010)

READINGS FOR CLASSES

Not all classes have specified readings. Where possible, we have added pdfs or weblinks to recommended readings. You may find these readings useful both for preparing for class discussions and for writing essays. More material may be added to these lists before classes.

WEEK 1
Lecture Title	Speaker	Readings	PDF
Introduction to History of Northern Ireland	Prof Peter Gray	Niall O Dochartaigh, 'Northern Ireland since 1920' in Richard Bourke and Ian McBride (eds), The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (Princeton 2016)	O Dochartaigh 2016
		J. H. Whyte, ‘How much discrimination was there under the Unionist regime, 1921-68?’ in T. Gallagher and J. O’Connell (eds), Contemporary Irish Studies (London, 1983)	Whyte 1983
Unionism and Loyalism	Dr Gordon Gillespie
Republicanism and Nationalism	Dr Cathal McManus	J. Whyte, Interpreting Northern Ireland (Oxford, 1990), Chapter 6. (McClay Library, Floor 1 (DA979 WHYT)
		J. Tonge, Northern Ireland: Conflict and Change (2^nd ed., 2001, Harlow) Chapter 5. (McClay Ground Floor (Short Loan) (DA973 TONG))
		J. Todd, 'Northern Ireland Nationalist Political Culture', Irish Political Studies, vol. 5 (1990). (Available in hard copy hJN1417 16 McClay Library, Floor 1 (special collections)
Introduction to the Archaeology of Ireland	Dr Finbar McCormick	J.P. Mallory, The Origins of the Irish (London, 2013), chapter 10.	Mallory Ch. 10
Maps and Mapping Ireland	Prof Keith Lilley	K. Lilley, 'Exploring the histories of mapping Ireland'	Exploring Histories of Mapping 2019
Introduction to Religion in Ireland	Prof Crawford Gribben	I. McBride, 'Religion', in R. Bourke and I. McBride (eds), The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (Princeton, 2016)	McBride, Religion, 2016
Introduction to Music in Ireland	Dr Conor Caldwell	L. O Laoire, 'Irish music', in J. Cleary and C. Connolly (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge, 2005)	O Laoire, Irish Music
WEEK 2
Introduction to the Languages of Ireland	Prof Micheal Ó Mainnin	G. Ó Tuathaigh, 'Language, ideology and national identity', in J. Cleary and C. Connolly (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge, 2005)	O Tuathaigh, Irish language
Swift and 18^th-Century Irish Writing (LC)	Dr Daniel Roberts	SOURCES: Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift - Any good edition such as Penguin Classics	https://archive.org/details/cu31924014165371
Medieval Ireland: the English colony (HH)	Dr Sparky Booker	S. Duffy, 'The problem of degeneracy', in J. Lydon (ed.), Law and Disorder in thirteenth century Ireland (Dublin, 1997)	Duffy 1997
		R. Frame, ''Les Engleys Nées en Irlande': The English Political Identity in Medieval Ireland', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, 3 (1993)	Frame 1993
The 1641 Rebellion and After (HH)	Dr John Cunningham	N. Canny, '1641 in colonial context' in J. Ohlmeyer and M. Ó Siochrú (eds), Ireland, 1641: contexts and reactions (Manchester, 2013), pp 52-70.	Canny 1641
		J. Cope, 'The Irish rising' in M. Braddick (ed.), The Oxford handbook of the English revolution (Oxford, 2015), pp 77-95.	Cope 1641
		SOURCE: 'The 1641 Depositions' at www.1641.tcd.ie A collection of 8,000 witness testimonies from the period freely available online, along with a range of introductory material
The Poetry of WB Yeats (LC)	Dr Stephen O'Neill	Yeats Readings. Yeats poems.	Yeats Readings Yeats Poems
Janet McNeill and The Maiden Dinosaur (LC)	Dr Sheila McWade	Janet McNeill documents.	Janet McNeill
The Great Famine (HH)	Prof Peter Gray	M. Daly, ‘The Famine’ in The Famine in Ireland (Dublin, 1986). P. Gray, ‘Memory and commemoration of the Great Irish Famine’, in P. Gray and K. Oliver (eds), The Memory of Catastrophe (Manchester, 2004)	Daly 1986 Gray 2004
Literature of Belfast (LC)	Dr Eamonn Hughes	E. Hughes, '”Town of Shadows”: Representations of Belfast in Recent Fiction’, Religion & Literature, Vol. 28, No. 2/3 (1996).	Hughes, Town of Shadows
Cultural History of 'Titanic' (LC)	Prof John W. Foster	J.W. Foster, Titanic (Penguin 1999) [5 copies in the McClay Library at G530.T6 FOST ]
Early Belfast (HH)	Prof Sean Connolly	S.J. Connolly, ‘Imagining Belfast’, in S.J. Connolly (ed.), Belfast 400 (Liverpool, 2012) pp 13-62.	Connolly 2012
Industrial Belfast (HH)	Dr Olwen Purdue	O. Purdue, ‘”A Gigantic System of Casual Pauperism”: The Contested Role of the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth-Century Belfast’, in B. Althammer, A. Gestrich, and J. Gründler (eds), The Welfare State and the 'Deviant Poor' in Europe, 1870-1933 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2014).	Purdue, 2014
		O. Purdue, ‘Surviving the industrial city: the female poor and the workhouse in late nineteenth-century Belfast’, Urban History, 44:1 (2016).	Purdue, 2016
Understanding the Troubles and Peace Process	Prof Richard English	R. English, ‘Terrorist Innovation and International Politics: Lessons from an IRA Case Study?’, International Politics 50, 4, 2013	English 2013
		R. English, 'Why Terrorist Campaigns Do Not End: The Case of Contemporary Irish Dissident Republicanism’, in R. English (ed), Illusions of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (Oxford, 2015)	English 2015
		N. Ó Dochartaigh, ‘The Longest Negotiation: British Policy, IRA Strategy and the Making of the Northern Ireland Peace Settlement’, Political Studies 63/1 (2015)	O Dochartaigh 2015
Irish Gothic Writing (LC)	Dr Sinead Sturgeon	James Clarence Mangan poems JC Mangan, 'The Man in the Cloak' Sheridan Le Fanu, 'Carmilla' . Irish Gothic Readings.	Mangan poems Man in the Cloak Carmilla Irish Gothic
Postindustrial Belfast and its Oral History (HH)	Prof Sean O'Connell	A. Bryson, 'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing': Researching Memory and Identity in Mid-Ulster, 1945-1969’, Oral History, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2007), pp. 45-56.	Bryson (2007)
		S. O’Connell, ‘An age of conservative modernity, 1914-68’ in S.J. Connolly (ed.), Belfast 400 (Liverpool, 2012) pp. 271-315.	O'Connell 2012
WEEK 3
Poetry of Seamus Heaney (LC)	Patrick Macfarlane	N. Corcoran, The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Guide (Faber, 1998), 'The appetites of gravity: North (1975)' ‌	Corcoran (1998)
		Seamus Heaney, North (1975) extracts ‌	North
Northern Voices: Contemporary Poetry (LC)	Tara McEvoy	M. Gamble, ‘“A potted peace / lily”: Northern Irish poetry since the ceasefires’, in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry, eds. Fran Brearton and Alan Gillis (Oxford, 2012), 668-83.	Gamble 2012
Contemporary Northern Irish fiction (LC)	Dr Alison Garden
Women and the Public Sphere in Ireland, c.1770-1918 (HH)	Prof Mary O’Dowd
Sources for Women's History in Modern Ireland (HH)	Dr Elaine Farrell	M. O’Dowd & P. Kilroy, 'Thoughts on gender history', in M. G. Valiulis (ed.), Gender and power in Irish history (Dublin 2008) pp9-17.	O'Dowd and Kilroy 2008
Irish women in the 20^th Century (HH)	Dr Marie Coleman
Parading and the 12th of July	Dr Dominic Bryan	D. Bryan, 'Titanic Town', in S.J. Connolly (ed.), Belfast 400 (Liverpool, 2012)	Bryan, 2012
		R. Jenkins, 'When Politics and Social Theory Converge: Group Identification and Group Rights in Northern Ireland', Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 12:3 (2006): 389-410.	Jenkins, R. 2006
		D. Bryan, 'Traditional Parades, Conflict and Change: Orange Parades and Other Rituals in Northern Ireland 1960-2000'. London: German Historical Institute for London (2006)	Bryan, D. 2006
WEEK 4
The Memory of Easter 1916 (HH)	Prof Fearghal McGarry	T. Cauvin and C. O'Neill, 'Negotiating public history in the Republic of Ireland: collaborative, applied and usable practices for the profession', Historical Research, 90 (2017)	Cauvin and O'Neill 2017
		R. Higgins, 'Introduction’ in Transforming 1916. Meaning, memory and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Easter Rising (Cork, 2013). ‌
		F. McGarry, 'Imagining the past to remember the future: Easter 1916 in 2016', History Ireland (March 2016)	McGarry, Easter 1916
Representing the Troubles in Museums (HH)	Dr Matthew Jackson	E. Crooke, ‘Dealing with the past: Museums and heritage in Northern Ireland and Cape Town, South Africa’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 11:2 (2005), 131-42.	Crooke 2005
		S. McDowell, ‘Selling Conflict Heritage Through Tourism in Peacetime Northern Ireland: Transforming Conflict or Exacerbating Difference?’ International Journal of Heritage Studies, 14(5), 2008: 405-21.	McDowell 2008.

RECOMMENDED WEBSITES

For information on the troubles, the background to the Northern Ireland peace process and much more, visit the Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN) website:

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk

In particular, look at the section called ‘Background on the Northern Ireland Conflict’

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/index.html

There is a searchable bibliography for Irish History at: https://www.ria.ie/research-projects/irish-history-online

Recommended Literature Websites:

http://www.iasil.org/

This is the website for the main academic organisation dealing with Irish literature. Many interesting things here, plus links to a host of other Irish literary resources, archive and website, including:

http://islandireland.com/Pages/lit.html

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/

http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/

Sourcing Books

If you have any difficulty sourcing the above books, you can try to get them from Abe Books at the following website:

http://www.abebooks.com/