Ireland and the British Empire

• Britain and Ireland, 1789-1801
• Another View: Why Ireland Wasn't a Colony
• "An Éirinneach nó Sassanach tú?" — Are You Irish or English?
• The Irish Famine: 1845-49
• "The sufferings of the poor Irish emigrant" — Emigration (Illustrated London News, 1851)
• The Depopulation of Ireland
• The Maynooth Grant
• The Lichfield House Compact, 1835
• Postcolonial Critical Theory (opens in new window)

Politics and Society in Victorian Ireland

• Daniel O'Conell

Science, Technology, and Politics

• Science and Empire in Victorian Ireland:
  The Evidence of British Association Meetings in Ireland
• The Practical Arts in Irish Culture

The Irish in England

• Anti-Irish Prejudice

Representations of Ireland and the Irish in English Literature

• Jonathan Swift ("A Modest Proposal")
• Thomas Carlyle (the Irish poor)
• Elizabeth Gaskell (Irish strikebreakers in North and South
• Charles Kingsley
• "The Tears on the Shamrock" (1847)
• Anthony Trollope — novels set in Ireland:
  • The Macdermots of Ballycoran,
  • The Kellys and the O'Kellys,
  • Castle Richmond
  • The Landleaguers

Ireland and the Visual Arts

• The Celtic Revival
• Popular and Applied Arts in the Celtic Revival
• Representations of Ireland and the Irish in Punch

Nineteenth-century Irish Writers

• Dion Boucicault
• Charles Lever
• Lord Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
• George Bernard Shaw
• John Millington Synge
• Thomas Moore
• Oscar Wilde
• William Butler Yeats

Geography and Landscape

• Introduction
• Dublin
• Sligo
• Donegal
• Westport