The Cambridge History of Ireland

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.