Land Questions in Modern Ireland

This collection of essays explores the nature and dynamics of Ireland's land questions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and also the ways in which the Irish land question has been written about by historians.

The book makes a vital contribution to the study of historiography by including for the first time the reflections of a group of prominent historians on their earlier work. These historians consider their influences and how their views have changed since the publication of their books, so that these essays provide an ethnographic study of historian's thoughts on the shelf-life of books exploring the way history is made.

The book will be of interest to historians of modern Ireland, as well as to sociologists and anthropologists interested in Ireland and in rural societies; and to those interested in the way historians think and in the revisionist debate in Ireland.

Fergus Campbell is Reader in Social and Cultural History in the School of History, Archaeology and Classics at Newcastle University.

Tony Varley is Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology and Political Science at National University of Ireland, Galway.

Fergus Campbell (Newcastle University): 'Introduction and acknowledgements'.
SECTION ONE: SURVEYS
Chapter one: Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUI Galway), 'Irish Land Questions in the State of the Union'.
Chapter two: Tony Varley (NUI Galway), 'Gaining Ground, Losing Ground: The Politics of Land Reform in Twentieth Century Ireland.'
SECTION TWO: REFLECTIONS
Chapter three: Barbara Solow (formerly of Boston University), 'The Irish Land Question in a Wider Context.'
Chapter four: Philip Bull (La Trobe University, Melbourne), 'Writing About Irish Land Against the Backdrop of Northern Ireland.'
Chapter five: Samuel Clark (University of Western Ontario), 'Strange Bedfellows? The Land League Alliances.'
Chapter six: David Jones (University of Brunei), 'The Issue of Land Redistribution: Revisiting Graziers, Land Reform and Political Conflict in Ireland.'
Chapter seven: Fergus Campbell (Newcastle University), 'Land and Revolution Revisited'.
SECTION THREE: NEW RESEARCH
Chapter eight: Heather Laird (University College, Cork), 'De-centering the Irish Land War: Women, Politics and the Private Sphere.'
Chapter nine: Anne Kane (University of Houston), 'The Transcendent Role of Catholic Discourse in the Irish Land War.'
Chapter ten: Gerard Moran (NUI Maynooth), 'Matthew Harris, Fenianism and Land Agitation in the West of Ireland.'
Chapter eleven: Tony Varley (NUI Galway), 'The Politics of 'Holding the Balance': Irish Farmers' Parties and Land Distribution in the Twentieth Century.'
Index