Week 9

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Topics

The Making of Northern Ireland
De Valera's Ireland

Tutorial Focus Question

Michael Collins has sometimes been lauded as the ‘creator of the Irish Free State’.  Is this description a fair one?

Essential Reading

• Townshend, Charles, Ireland: the twentieth century (London, 1999), pp.108-31.

Recommended Readings

• Connor, Ulick, Michael Collins and the troubles: the struggle for Irish freedom, 1912-1922 (Edinburgh, 2001) [short loan].
• Coogan, Tim Pat, Michael Collins: the man who made Ireland (Boulder, Col. 1996) [short loan].
• ---. (London, 1995) [short loan].
• Farry. Michael, The aftermath of revolution: Sligo, 1921-23 (Dublin, 2000)
• Foster, Roy, Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (London, 1988) [short loan].
• Garvin, Tom, 1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy (Dublin, 1996) [short loan].
• Hart, Peter, The I.R.A. and its enemies: violence and community in Cork, 1916-1923 (Oxford, 1998) [short loan].
• Hopkinson, Michael, The Irish War of Independence (Dublin, 2002) [short loan].
• ---. Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War (Dublin, 1988) [short loan].
• Hoppen, K. Theodore, Ireland Since 1800: Conflict and Conformity (London, 1999) [short loan].
• Keogh, Dermot, Twentieth Century Ireland: Nation and State (Dublin, 1994) [short loan]
• Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998: Politics and War (Oxford, 1999) [short loan].
• Kostick, Conor, Revolution in Ireland: popular militancy, 1917 to 1923 (London, 1996) [short loan].
• Lee, J. J. Ireland 1912Ð1985, Politics and Society (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 56Ð94.
• Neeson, E. The civil war in Ireland, 1922-23 (Dublin, 1989) [short loan].

Lecture outlines
Making of Northern Ireland

1. The Government of Ireland Act
2. Consolidation
3. Challenges

Thomas Hennessy, History of Northern Ireland, 1920-1996 (London, 1997)
Jonathan Bardon, History of Ulster (Belfast, 2001)
David Lloyd George
James Craig
Stormont
Collins-Craig Pact
Ramsey Macdonald
Boundary Commission
J. R. Fischer
Derry City
Fermanagh
Special Powers
Elastic Clause
Sir Basil Brooke

De Valera's Ireland

1. Post 1923 Ireland
2. De Valera and Fianna F‡il
3. De Valera in Power
4. Dismantling the Treaty

Cumann na nGaedheal Party
Statute of Westminster
Irish government prohibited divorce by law (1923).
Censorship of Films Act (1923).
Censorship of Publications Act (1929).
Garda
Séan Lemass
Anglo-Irish 'Economic War', 1932-38
De Valera's Constitution for 'Ireland' (ratified 1937)
Articles Two and Three (concerning Northern Ireland)
Article 44 (recognizes preeminent position of Catholic Church)
Control of Manufactures Act (1938)
Anglo-Irish Agreements (1938)