SUGGESTED READING LIST
for Irish History and Politics

 

 

last updated 30 August 1999

 

This is a list of suggested titles only, not an exhaustive listing of books available.
To suggest additions to this list, email
jdana@utxsvs.cc.utexas.edu.

 

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Adams, Gerry. A Pathway to Peace, 1988.

Adams, Gerry. The Politics of Irish Freedom, 1987.

Belfrage, Sally. Living with War: A Belfast, 1987.

Bell, J. Boyer. The Secret Army: A History of the IRA 1915-1970, 1972.

Beresford, David. Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, 1987.

Bew, Paul and Gillespie, Gordon. Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles, 1968-1993.

Bishop, Patrick and Eamonn Mallie. The Provisional IRA, 1988.

Campbell, Brian, Laurence McKeown and Felim O'Hagan, eds. Nor Meekly Serve My Time: The H-Block Struggle 1976-1981,1994. (Review ONLINE!)

Carson, Willie. Derry Thru The Lens, 1974.

Carson, Willie. So This Was Derry, 1994.

Collins, Tom. The Irish Hunger Strike, 1986.

Conlon, Gerry. Proved Innocent, 1990.

Conroy, John. Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life, 1987.

Coogan, Tim Pat. Disillusioned Decades: Ireland 1966-87, 1987.

Coogan, Tim Pat. On the Blanket: The H-Block Story, 1980.

Coogan, Tim Pat. The IRA: A History, 1993.

Curtis, Liz. The H-Blocks: An Indictment of British Prison Policy in the North of Ireland, 1981.

Curtis, Liz. Ireland: The Propaganda War, 1984.

Curtis, Liz. In the Cause of Ireland.

D'Arcy, Margaretta. Tell Them Everything: A Sojourn in the Prison of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Ard Macha (Armagh), 1981.

Darby, John, ed. Northern Ireland: The Background to the Conflict, 1983.

Darby, John. Intimidation and the Control of Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1986.

Devlin, Bernadette. The Price of My Soul, 1969.

Downey, James. Them & Us: Britain-Ireland and the Northern Question 1969-1982

Edwards, Ruth Dudley. James Connolly, 1981.

Edwards, Ruth Dudley. Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure, 1977.

Farrell, Michael. Northern Ireland: The Orange State, 1980.

Feehan, John M. Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland, 1983.

Foster, R. F. [Robert Fitzroy]. Modern Ireland 1600-1972, 1988.

Garvin, Tom. The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics, 1981.

Hachey, Thomas E., Joseph M. Hernon, Jr. and Lawrence J. McCaffrey. The Irish Experience, 1989. (textbook)

Hechter, Michael. Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development 1536-1966, 1975.

Hogan, Gerard and Clive Walker. Political Violence and the Law in Ireland, 1989.

Holland, Jack. Too Long A Sacrifice: Life and Death In Northern Ireland Since 1969, 1981.

Kee, Robert. The Green Flag: The Turbulent History of the Irish National Movement, 1972.

Keena, Colm. Gerry Adams-A Biography, 1990.

Macardle, Dorothy. The Irish Republic: A Documented Chronicle of the Anglo-Irish Conflict and the Partitioning of Ireland, With a Detailed Account of the Period 1916-1923, 1965.

MacDonagh, Oliver. States of Mind: A Study of Anglo-Irish Conflict 1780-1980, 1983.

MacStiofain, Sean. Revolutionary in Ireland, 1975.

MacSwiney, Terence. Principles of Freedom, 1921.

McCafferty, Nell. Peggy Deery: An Irish Family at War, 1988.

McCafferty, Nell. The Armagh Women, 1981.

Stalker, John. The Stalker Affair, 1988.

McGuffin, John. Internment, 1973.

Miller, Kerby A. Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America, 1985.

Moynihan, Marurice, ed. Speeches and Statements by Eamon de Valera 1917-73, 1980.

Nolan, Daniel, ed. Sworn to be Free: The Complete Book of IRA Jailbreaks, 1918- 1921, 1971.

O Luing, Sean. I Die in a Good Cause, 1970.

O'Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah. Irish Rebels in English Prisons.

O'Malley, Ernie. On Another Man's Wound, 1936.

O'Malley, Ernie. The Singing Flame, 1978.

O'Malley, Padraig. Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair, 1990.

O'Sullivan, P. Michael. Patriot Graves: Resistance in Ireland, 1972.

Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz, 1934.

Sands, Bobby. One Day in My Life, 1983.

Sands, Bobby. Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands, 1982.

Sands, Bobby. The Diary of Bobby Sands, 1981. (Entire text available ONLINE!)

Toolis, Kevin. Rebel Hearts, 1996.

 


 

Books on the 1916 Easter Rebellion

Some of these books may be out of print - check with your local library.

 

Thanks to JJOSHEA@FAB10.intel.com

Marcus Burke, The O Rahilly, Tralee 1967

L O Brien, Dublin Castle & 1916 Rising, London 1966

K B Nolan, The Making of 1916, Dublin 1969

J Stephens, The Insurrection in Dublin, London 1978

C Callan Tansil, America & the fight for Irish Freedom, NY 1957

Desmond Ryan, J Connolly, London 1924

Desmond Ryan, The Phoenix Flame, London 1937

Desmond Ryan, The Rising, Dublin 1949

Desmond Ryan, Labour & Easter Week, Dublin 1949

Ulick O Connor, A Terrible Beauty is Born, London 1985

Mrs. H Norway, The Sinn Fein Rebellion, London 1916

Edgar Holt, Protest in Arms, the Irish Troubles, London 1960

Dorothy Mc Ardle, The Irish Republic, London 1968

J De Courcy-Ireland, The Sea & Easter Week, Dublin 1966

M Gubhaill, Insurrection Fires at Easter Week, Cork 1966

Nora Connolly-O Brien, The Irish Rebel, 1916

Nora Connolly-O Brien, The Unbroken Tradition, NY 1918

Nora Connolly-O Brien, Born of a Rebel Father, Dublin 1935

 

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