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Recommended Irish - English History books

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    gutenberg
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭gutenberg


    Fairfunk wrote: »
    Hi,

    Can anyone recommend a good book focusing on the relationship, issues and history between England and Ireland from the beginning to modern day?

    Many thanks.

    Can you be any more specific? That's a very broad request you have there :)

    With the way that Irish history-writing has developed recently, a lot of books ostensibly on Ireland now incorporate the 'English' dimension to Irish affairs. A good recent example would Thomas Bartlett's 'Ireland: A History' published by Cambridge. Or there is Roy Foster's 'Modern Ireland', which only goes from 1600. I'm a historian who works on English-Irish relations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries so I could recommend you some interesting things from that period, but I'm a bit shakier on earlier and later periods :)


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    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    I echo the Foster recommendation. A bit 'revisionist' but in an Irish context that isn't a bad thing (As you can imagine, those of a green or orange hue will insist on getting offended by any kind of re-evaluation of so called 'established truths')

    Look out for a guy called Joe Lee - one of the most highly regarded and controversial Irish historians of his age. He has wrote a few books that may prove illuminating to you.


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    Fairfunk
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭Fairfunk


    Hi,

    Sorry I just re-read my post and agree that its probably a poorly worded question as questions go.

    I think what I am looking for is the literature version of the BBC Documentary : The Story of Ireland, or something along those lines. Seems like quite a good level and pace for a general overview of Irish - English history.

    Thanks for the suggestions so far though, I'll have a Google and see what I find.


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    gutenberg
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭gutenberg


    Fairfunk wrote: »
    Hi,

    Sorry I just re-read my post and agree that its probably a poorly worded question as questions go.

    I think what I am looking for is the literature version of the BBC Documentary : The Story of Ireland, or something along those lines. Seems like quite a good level and pace for a general overview of Irish - English history.

    Thanks for the suggestions so far though, I'll have a Google and see what I find.

    Have you checked out the book that was published to coincide with the series, The Story of Ireland: In Search of a New National Memory by Neil Hegarty and Fergal Keane? :)


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