Part I. Narrative and events
Conquest, civilization, colonization: Ireland, 1540-1660 / Jane Ohlmeyer
Ascendancy Ireland, 1660-1800 / Ultan Gillen
A failure of consummation, conciliation and consent: Ireland under the Union, 1801-1922 / John Bew
Independent Ireland / Fearghal McGarry
Northern Ireland since 1920 / Niall O Dochartaigh
Twenty-first-century Ireland / Diarmaid Ferriter
Part II. Topics, themes and developments
Intellectual history, William King to Edmund Burke / Daniel Carey
Young Ireland to Yeats / David Dwan
Irish modernism and its legacies / Lauren Arrington
Media and culture in Ireland, 1960-2008 / Maurice Walsh
Historiography / Richard Bourke
The Irish language / Vincent Morley
Ireland and empire / Jill C. Bender
Women and gender in modern Ireland / Catriona Kennedy
Political violence / Marc Mulholland
Economy in independent Ireland / Andy Bielenberg
Nationalisms / Matthew Kelly