The Making of Ireland (Second Edition)
The Making of Ireland is written in a clear factual style with up-to-date historical commentary. This beautifully illustrated textbook features a wide variety of relevant historical imagery and presents key statistics in clear, useful graphs and charts.
The Making of Ireland provides in-depth coverage of and case studies from the four most popular Later Modern Ireland topics. Students must study two of these:
- Topic 2: Movements for Political and Social Reform, 1870–1914
- Topic 3: The Pursuit of Sovereignty and the Impact of Partition, 1912–1949
- Topic 5: Politics and Society in Northern Ireland, 1949–1993 [prescribed topic for 2022/2023]
- Topic 6: Government, Economy and Society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949–1989