Bakgrunn/hovedbok
Coogan, Tim Pat, Ireland in the Twentieth Century, Arrow Books, 2003
- Kap. 1 – Grasping the Orange nettle (pre-1916)
- Kap. 2 – Aftermath and Civil war (1916-1922)
- Kap. 3 – From Blood to book-keeping (1923-1939)
- Kap. 7 – Lemass: The window-opener (ca 1959-65)
- Kap. 9 – Decade of Dissension (the South after 1969)
- Kap. 13 – Culture and Society
McCloskey, James, Voices Silenced, Has Irish a Future? Cois Life Teoranta, Dublin 2001
Skjønnlitteratur
- Joyce, James, The Dead i Dubliners (i kompendium)
- O’Brien, Flann, The Poor Mouth
- Ó Criomhthain, Tomás, The Island Man
Kompendium 1:
Språk og samfunn
- Fennell, Desmond, Can a Shrinking Linguistic Minority be Saved? Lessons from the Irish Experience i: Haugen, McClure, Thomson (eds.), Minority Languages Today, Edinburgh University Press 1981
- Hyde, Douglas, The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland i: Crowley, Tony, The Politics of Language in Ireland 1366 -1922, Routledge, London & New York 2000
- Wall, Maureen, The Decline of the Irish Language i: Ó Cuív, Brian (ed.), A View of the Irish Language, Dublin 1969
- Ó Múrchú, M., Aspects of the Societal Status of Modern Irish, i M. Ball (ed.), The Celtic Languages, Routledge London 1993
Emigrasjon
- Fitzpatrick, D., Irish Emigration, 1801-1921, Dundalgan Press Ltd. 1984 (reprint 1990)
Irland i EU
- Keatinge, Patrick, Ireland and EC membership evaluated, del V, kapittel 31: Weighing up gains and losses + Appendiks, London, 1991
Religion
- Cleary & Connolly (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture, kapittel 4: Religion, identity, state and society, Cambridge 2005
- Corish, Patrick, The Irish Catholic Experience, kapittel 8: Establishments, Dublin, 1986
- Lee, J. J., Ireland 1912-1985 – Politics and Society, kapittel 2, avsnitt 7: Church and State, Cambridge, 1989
Kompendium 2:
Litteratur
Kiberd, Declan, Inventing Ireland, Vintage 1996
- Kap. 11 – Uprising
- Kap. 15 – Writing Ireland, Reading England
- Kap. 16 – Inventing Ireland
- Kap. 19 – James Joyce and mythic realism
Kiberd, Declan, The Blasket Autobiographies, i Irish Classics, Harvard University Press 2001
Joyce, James, The Dead i Dubliners, Penguin Modern Classics 1966
Kursorisk lesning
- McCourt, Frank, Angelas Ashes, Harper Collins, London 1996
- Brown, Terence, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2001, Harper Perennial, London 2004