Offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of modern Ireland.

Introduction Thomas Bartlett; Foreword; 1. Ireland 1880-2016: negotiating sovereignty and freedom Gearóid Ó 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 Ó 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 Daithí Ó Corráin; 26. Art and architecture in Ireland, 1880-2016 Paula Murphy; 27. Ireland looking outwards 1880-2016 Eunan O' Halpin; Endword.