1st Edition
Ireland’s Histories Aspects of State, Society and Ideology
Preface
1. Introduction: perspectives on Irish history and social studies
Seán Hutton and Paul Stewart
2. Nationalist historiography and the decline of the Irish economy: George O’Brien revisited
David S. Johson and Liam Kennedy
3. A Saorstát is born: how the Irish Free State came into being
D.R. O’Connor Lysaght
4. Labour in the post-independence Irish state: an overview
Seán Hutton
5. The Irish Constitution of 1937
Joseph Lee
6. Industrial development and the unmaking of the Irish working class
Jim Smyth
7. The Protestant working class and the state in Northern Ireland since 1930: a problematic relationship
J.W. McAuley and P.J. McCormack
8. Tearing the house down: religion and employment in the Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Donald Graham
9. The women’s movement in the north of Ireland: twenty years on
Margaret Ward
10. The demolition squad: Bew, Gibbon and Patterson on the Northern Ireland state
Bob Purdie
11. The jerrybuilders: Bew, Gibbon and Patterson – the Protestant working class and the Northern Ireland state
Paul Stewart
12. Patrick MacGill: the making of a writer
Patrick O’Sullivan
13. Bringing the margins into the centre: a review of aspects of Irish women’s emigration
Ann Rossiter
14. Missing the boat: the Labour party and the Irish question
Jonathan Moore
Biography
Seán Hutton
Paul Stewart
Review of the first publication:
‘… [the book] provides a useful introduction to the current debates on the radical fringe of Irish academic studies.’
— Kieran Allen, Saothar, Vol. 17
