Land Questions in Modern Ireland

Fergus Campbell is Reader in Social and Cultural History in the School of History, Archaeology and Classics at Newcastle UniversityTony Varley is Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology and Political Science at NUI Galway

Attractively designed ... this is an invaluable and inspiring review of the land question and should be put in the hands of any student coming to the subject., Carla King, St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, Irish Studies Review 23.2, 1 May 2015

• Introduction and acknowledgements – Fergus CampbellSECTION ONE: SURVEYS 1. Irish land questions in the State of the Union – Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh2. Gaining ground, losing ground: The politics of land reform in twentieth-century Ireland – Tony Varley SECTION TWO: REFLECTIONS3. The Irish land question in a wider context – Barbara Solow4. Writing about Irish land against the backdrop of Northern Ireland – Philip Bull5. Strange bedfellows? The Land League Alliances – Samuel Clark6. The issue of land redistribution: Revisiting Graziers, Land Reform and Political Conflict in Ireland – David Jones7. Land and Revolution revisited – Fergus CampbellSECTION THREE: NEW RESEARCH 8. De-centering the Irish land war: Women, politics and the private sphere – Heather Laird9. The transcendent role of Catholic discourse in the Irish Land War – Anne Kane 10. Matthew Harris, Fenianism and land agitation in the West of Ireland – Gerard Moran11. The politics of “holding the balance”: Irish farmers’ parties and land distribution in the twentieth century –Tony Varley Index