The Modern Ireland Documents Resource Book is the perfect companion to the Modern Ireland textbook. Together they help students to achieve their maximum potential through active and effective learning. * Focuses on the compulsory documents-based topic Government, Economy and Society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949-89 * Excellent for both Ordinary and Higher Level students * Contains strategies for answering the documents-based questions * Includes additional documents-based questions and sample answers for all three case studies * Explains key concepts and important terms * Provides summaries of key personalities NEW! Additional resources for Modern Ireland are available on Gillexplore.ie, our new smart, reliable and easy-to-use resources platform.

The second edition of this bestselling survey of modern Irish history covers social, religious as well as political history and offers a distinctive combination of chronological and thematic approaches.

This is a book about the Irish Question, or more specifically about Irish Questions. The term has become something of a catch-all, a convenient way to encompass numerous issues and developments which pertain to the political, social, and economic history of modern Ireland.The Irish Question has of course changed: one of the main aims of this book is to explore the complicated and shifting nature of the Irish Question and to assess what it has meant to various political minds and agendas. No other issue brought down as many nineteenth-century governments and no comparable twentieth-century dilemma has matched its ability to frustrate the attempts of British cabinets to find a solution; this inability to find a lasting answer to the Irish Question is especially striking when seen in the context of the massive shifts in British foreign policy brought about by two world wars, decolonization, and the cold war. Senia Paseta charts the changing nature of the Irish Question over the last 200 years, within an international political and social historical context. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

FOR BOTH HIGHER AND ORDINARY LEVEL This new edition of Modern Ireland, the market-leading textbook, has been updated to reflect recent exam trends and ensure Leaving Certificate History success. Includes the three most popular syllabus topics, two of which must be studied: Movements for Political and Social Reform, 1870-1914 The Pursuit of Sovereignty and the Impact of Partition, 1912-1949 Politics and Society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993 (compulsory documents topic for 2022/2023 exams) NEW! Student-friendly design NEW! Essay Plans and Updated Exam Questions help hone exam technique NEW! Point of Debate feature helps students develop critical and analytical skills NEW! Updated and more frequent Review Questions Strong emphasis on Key Personalities and expanded Key Concepts Case Studies UPDATED Case Studies include new sources and additional questions FREE Documents Resource Book with every copy of Modern Ireland focuses exclusively on Politics and Society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993, the topic prescribed for the 2022 and 2023 exams Modern Ireland, together with its companion Modern Europe, provide students with their essential texts for Leaving Certificate History. DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS A suite of digital resources is available on www.gillexplore.ie, including curriculum-focused videos and worksheets, web resource list, and complete textbook chapters on Government, Economy and Society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949-1989. FREE eBook with valuable videos and weblinks for further research. Adopting teachers also get a free eBook of the accompanying Documents Resource Book. Gill Education eBooks are accessible both online and offline. Dr Gerard Brockie and Dr Raymond Walsh have extensive experience in teaching and examining at both second and third levels. They have collaborated in writing several history textbooks for both Junior and Senior Cycles.

Masterfully blending narrative and interpretation, and R.F. Foster's Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. 'The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his generation' Colm Tóibín, London Review of Books 'Remarkable ... Foster gives a wise and balanced account of both forces of unity and forces of diversity ... a master work of scholarship' Bernard Crick, New Statesman 'A tour de force ... Anyone who really wants to make sense of Ireland and the Irish must read Roy Foster's magnificent and accessible Modern Ireland' Anthony Clare 'A magnificent book. It supersedes all other accounts of modern Irish history' Conor Cruise O'Brien, Sunday Times 'Dazzling ... a masterly survey not so much of the events of Irish history over the past four centuries as of the way in which those events acted upon the peoples living in Ireland to produce in our own time an "Irish Nation" ... a gigantic and distinguished undertaking' Robert Kee, Observer 'A work of gigantic importance. It is everything that a history book should be. It is beautifully and clearly written; it seeps wisdom through its every pore; it is full of the most elegant and scholarly insights; it is magnificently authoritative and confident ... Modern Ireland is quite simply the single most important book on Irish history written in this generation ... A masterpiece' Kevin Myers, Irish Times R. F. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His books include Modern Ireland: 1600-1972, Luck and the Irish and W. B. Yeats: A Life.

This book is a revised and greatly expanded version of our book Elements of Number Theory published in 1972. As with the first book the primary audience we envisage consists of upper level undergraduate mathematics majors and graduate students. We have assumed some familiarity with the material in a standard undergraduate course in abstract algebra. A large portion of Chapters 1-11 can be read even without such background with the aid of a small amount of supplementary reading. The later chapters assume some knowledge of Galois theory, and in Chapters 16 and 18 an acquaintance with the theory of complex variables is necessary. Number theory is an ancient subject and its content is vast. Any intro ductory book must, of necessity, make a very limited selection from the fascinat ing array of possible topics. Our focus is on topics which point in the direction of algebraic number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry. By a careful selection of subject matter we have found it possible to exposit some rather advanced material without requiring very much in the way oftechnical background. Most of this material is classical in the sense that is was dis covered during the nineteenth century and earlier, but it is also modern because it is intimately related to important research going on at the present time.

Did Ireland produce a more radical and ambitious literature in the straitened circumstances of the first half of the twentieth century than it has managed to do since it began to ‘modernize’ and become more affluent from the 1960s onwards? Has Irish modernism ceded place to a prevailing naturalism that seems gritty and tough-minded, but that is aesthetically conservative and politically self-thwarted? Does the fixation with ‘de Valera’s Ireland’ in recent narrative represent a necessary settling of accounts with a dark, abusive history or is it indicative of a worrying inability on the part of Irish artists and intellectuals to respond to the very different predicaments of the post-Cold War world? These are some of the questions addressed in Outrageous Fortune. Scanning literature, theatre, film and music, Joe Cleary probes the connections between capital, culture and criticism in modern Ireland. He includes readings of James Joyce and the Irish modernists, the naturalists Patrick Kavanagh, John McGahern and Edna O’Brien, and comments too on what he terms the ‘neo-naturalism’ of Marina Carr, Patrick McCabe and Martin McDonagh. He concludes with a provocative analysis of the cultural achievement of the Pogues.