Further reading

Here are some further reading suggestions, covering a range of interpretations:

• Patrick Sarsfield O’Hegarty, A history of Ireland under the Union 1801-1922 (1952)
• F.S.L Lyons, Ireland Since the Famine (1971)
• Tim Pat Coogan, The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy (2012)
• Ronan Fanning, Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution, 1910-1922 (2012)
• Paul Bew, The State in Northern Ireland, 1921-1972: Political Forces and Social Class (1979)
• Brendan Bradshaw, ‘Nationalism and historical scholarship in modern Ireland’, Irish Historical Studies (1989)
• Roy Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (1988)
• Marianne Elliott, The Catholics of Ulster: a history (2000)

Here are two essays which look at the historiography of Northern Ireland, examining why different historians wrote what they did:

• Ian McBride, ‘Dealing with the Past: Historians and the Northern Ireland Conflict’, link
• John Whyte, ‘Interpretations of the Northern Ireland Problem: an Appraisal’, Economic and Social Review Vol.9, No.4, 1978