Palgrave Advances in Irish History

Preface; N.Curtin Editors' Foreword List of Contributors Irish Political History; Guidelines and Reflections; P.Maume Gaelic Ireland; M.O'Riordan The Irish Famine; History and Representation; M.Kelleher Economic and Labour History; N.Puirséil Conceiving the Irish Diasporas: Irish Migration and Migrant Communities in the Modern World; W.Murphy Local History; M.Cronin Institutionalisation in Irish History and Society; C.Cox Irish Histories; Gender, Women and Sexualities; M.McAuliffe Ireland; Identities and Cultural Traditions; L.Lane Ireland; Visualizing History; V.Krielkamp Appendix I: Chronology of Irish History

CATHERINE COX Lecturer in the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, Ireland MAURA CRONIN Senior Lecturer in History and Co-ordinator of the Oral History Centre, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, IrelandNANCY J. CURTIN Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Fordham University, New York City, USAMARGARET KELLEHER Director, Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, IrelandVERA KREILKAMP Professor of English at Pine Manor College, USALEEANN LANE Co-ordinator of Irish Studies, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University, IrelandMARY MCAULIFFE Lecturer, Women's Studies Programme, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, IrelandPATRICK MAUME Researcher on the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography KATHERINE O'DONNELL Senior Lecturer, Women's Studies Programme, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, IrelandMICHELLE O'RIORDAIN Assistant Professor in the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, IrelandNIAMH PUIRSEIL Lecturer, School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, Ireland