Geoffrey Keating, Foras feasa ar Éirinn / The History of Ireland (1634)
William Molyneux, The case of Ireland's being bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated (1698)
Jonathan Swift, A modest proposal (1729)
Andrew Dunleavy, The catechism of Christian doctrine (1742)
William Theobald Wolfe Tone (ed.), The autobiography of Wolfe Tone (1826)
John Mitchel, The jail journal (1861)
Horace Plunkett, Ireland in the new century (1904); Michael O'Riordan, Catholicity and progress in Ireland (1905)
James Connolly, Labour in Irish History (1910)
Patrick A. Sheehan, The graves at Kilmorna (1913)
Desmond Ryan (ed.), Collected works of Padraic H. Pearse (1917)
Daniel Corkery, The hidden Ireland (1924)
P. S. O'Hegarty, The victory of Sinn Féin: how it won it and how it used it (1924)
Tomás Ó Criomhthain, An tOileánach / The Islandman (1929)
Frank O'Connor, Guests of the nation (1931)
Sean O'Faoláin, King of the beggars (1938)
Flann O'Brien, At swim two birds (1939)
James Kavanagh, Manual of social ethics (1954)
Paul Blanshard, The Irish and Catholic power, an American interpretation (1954)
Michael Sheehy, Divided we stand (1955)
Edna O'Brien, The country girls (1960); John McGahern, The dark (1965)
Cecil Woodham-Smith, The great hunger (1962)
Conor Cruise O'Brien, States of Ireland (1972)
A. T. Q. Stewart, The narrow ground (1977)
C. S. Andrews, Dublin made me (1979)
Nell MaCafferty, A woman to blame: The Kerry babies case (1985)
Noel Browne, Against the tide (1986)
Fintan O'Toole, Meanwhile back at the ranch: The politics of Irish beef (1995)
Mary Raftery and Eoin O'Sullivan, Suffer the little children: The inside story of Ireland's industrial schools (1999)
Elaine A. Byrne, Political corruption in Ireland: A crooked harp? (2012).
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The books that define Ireland by Bryan Fanning. ISBN 9781908928528. Published by Merrion in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
