Mike Cronin is Academic Director of the Centre for Irish Programmes at Boston College in Dublin, Ireland. Liam O'Callaghan is Lecturer in Health at Liverpool Hope University, UK. His main area of research is the social history of modern Ireland.

• Introduction1. Occupation, Assimilation and Resistance2. Early Modern Ireland, 1534-16913. From King William to the Act of Union, 1692-18004. The Nineteenth Century5. Founding the States6. Post-War Ireland and the Modern TroublesChronologyFurther ReadingIndex.

Mike Cronin is Academic Director of the Centre for Irish Programmes at Boston College in Dublin, Ireland. Liam O'Callaghan is Lecturer in Health at Liverpool Hope University, UK. His main area of research is the social history of modern Ireland.

• Introduction1. Occupation, Assimilation and Resistance2. Early Modern Ireland, 1534-16913. From King William to the Act of Union, 1692-18004. The Nineteenth Century5. Founding the States6. Post-War Ireland and the Modern TroublesChronologyFurther ReadingIndex.

Mike Cronin is Academic Director of the Centre for Irish Programmes at Boston College in Dublin, Ireland. Liam O'Callaghan is Lecturer in Health at Liverpool Hope University, UK. His main area of research is the social history of modern Ireland.

• Introduction1. Occupation, Assimilation and Resistance2. Early Modern Ireland, 1534-16913. From King William to the Act of Union, 1692-18004. The Nineteenth Century5. Founding the States6. Post-War Ireland and the Modern TroublesChronologyFurther ReadingIndex.