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A book of this size cannot hope to masquerade as total history, and readers must understand that the choice of subject matter will necessarily reveal the biases and interests of the writer. This book is not aimed at the initiated, and I hope it will be accessible to people with little or no knowledge of modern Irish history. Each chapter deals with a particular period of modern Irish history, though themes and developments cross the years and the decades. Because of the brevity of this book, selecting a hierarchy of events and individuals for inclusion was a difficult task. The focus is broadly political, and I am sorry not to have been able to include more discussion of the lived realities of Irish and Northern Irish life. I hope that this very brief sketch will whet appetites for further reading.
I owe a great debt to a number of generous friends and colleagues who contributed in more ways than they know to the writing of this book. Shelley Cox and Rebecca O’Connor were exemplary editors and co-conspirators. Philip Bull, Roy Foster, Neal Garnham, Selina Guinness, Marc Mulholland, John Robertson, and Charles Townshend listened patiently to my often disjointed thoughts and offered incisive comments on draft chapters. Many thanks too to my students, who told me what they would like to see in a book of this kind. As always, I am deeply grateful to Katarina Pašeta for unswerving loyalty, and to Simon Riley for his astute suggestions and for the unwavering confidence he displayed in this book and its author – despite disagreeing with both at times.
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