Further reading

Michael Kennedy and Joseph Morrison Skelly have provided both a historiographical review and extensive bibliography of works on Ireland’s foreign relations published prior to 2000 in their book Irish foreign policy, 1919–1966: From independence to internationalism (Dublin, 2000). The principal scholarly journal in the field is Irish Studies in International Affairs (1979–), published by the Royal Irish Academy and available on the JSTOR database.

Biographical studies of many diplomats and political figures can be found in the Dictionary of Irish Biography (9 vols, Cambridge, 2009) and its online supplements: http://dib. cambridge.org/. The historiography of Irish foreign policy is intertwined with the wider historiography on Irish history since 1919; many standard studies, and especially biographies of key figures, contain material of relevance. The list of publications that follows is confined to major and easily available studies and memoirs relating to Irish foreign policy since the era of the Irish revolution.

• Bowman, John, De Valera and the Ulster question, 1917–1973 (Oxford, 1982).
• Brennan, Robert, Ireland standing firm (Dublin, 2002).
• Connelly, Tony, Brexit and Ireland (2nd edn; Dublin, 2018).
• Doyle, John, Noel Dorr, Michael Kennedy and Ben Tonra (eds), Irish foreign policy (Dublin, 2012).
• Dorr, Noel, Ireland at the United Nations: memories of the early years (Dublin, 2010).
• Dorr, Noel, A small state at the top table: memories of Ireland on the UN security council, 1981–82 (Dublin, 2011).
• Dorr, Noel, Sunningdale: the search for peace in Northern Ireland (Dublin, 2017).
• Evans, Bryce and Stephen Kelly (eds), Frank Aiken: nationalist and internationalist (Dublin, 2014).
• Fanning, Ronan, Fatal path: British government and Irish revolution, 1910–1922 (London, 2013).
• Ferriter, Diarmaid, The border: The legacy of a century of Anglo-Irish relations (London, 2019).
• Fisk, Robert. In time of war: Ireland, Ulster and the price of neutrality, 1939–45 (Dublin, 1983).
• FitzGerald, Garret, All in a life: an autobiography (Dublin, 1991).
• FitzGerald, Garret, Reflections on the Irish state: Ireland since independence (Dublin, 2002).
• Geary, Michael, An inconvenient wait: Ireland’s quest for membership of the EEC, 1957–1973 (Dublin, 2009).
• Gibney, John, Michael Kennedy and Kate O’Malley, Ireland: A voice among the nations (Dublin, 2019)
• Harkness, David, The restless dominion: the Irish Free State and the British Commonwealth (Dublin, 1969).
• Keatinge, Patrick, The formulation of Irish foreign policy (Dublin, 1973).
• Keatinge, Patrick, A place among the nations: issues of Irish foreign policy (Dublin, 1978).
• Kelly, Stephen, ‘A failed political entity’: Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland question, 1945–1992 (Dublin, 2016).
• Kennedy, Michael, Ireland and the League of Nations: international relations, diplomacy and politics (Dublin, 1996).
• Kennedy, Michael, Division and consensus: the politics of cross- border relations in Ireland, 1925–1969 (Dublin, 2000).
• Kennedy, Michael and Deirdre McMahon (eds), Obligations and responsibilities: Ireland and the United Nations, 1955–2005 (Dublin, 2005).
• Kennedy, Michael and Art Magennis, Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo (Dublin, 2014).
• Keown, Gerard, First of the small nations: the beginnings of Irish foreign policy in the interwar years, 1919–32 (Oxford, 2016).
• Keogh, Dermot, Ireland and Europe, 1919–48: a diplomatic and political history (revised edn; Dublin, 1988).
• Keogh, Dermot, Ireland and the Vatican: the politics and diplomacy of church–state relations, 1922–60 (Cork, 1995).
• Maher, Denis, The tortuous path: the course of Ireland’s entry into the EEC, 1948–73 (Dublin, 1986).
• Mansergh, Nicholas, The unresolved question: the Anglo-Irish settlement and its undoing, 1912–72 (London and New Haven, 1991).
• Mansergh, Nicholas, Nationalism and independence: Selected Irish papers, ed. Diana Mansergh (Cork, 1997).
• McCabe, Ian, A diplomatic history of Ireland 1948–49: the republic, the Commonwealth and NATO (Dublin, 1991).
• McMahon, Deirdre, Republicans and imperialists: Anglo-Irish relations in the 1930s (New Haven, 1984).
• Ó Beachain, Donnacha, From partition to Brexit: The Irish government and Northern Ireland (Manchester, 2018).
• O’Driscoll Mervyn, Dermot Keogh and Jérôme aan de Wiel (eds), Ireland through European eyes: Western Europe, the EEC and Ireland, 1945–1973 (Cork, 2013).
• O’Halpin, Eunan, Defending Ireland: the Irish state and its enemies since 1922 (Oxford, 1999).
• O’Malley, Kate, Ireland, India and empire. Indo-Irish radical connections, 1919–64 (Manchester, 2008).
• O’Shea, Helen, Ireland and the end of the British Empire: the republic and its role in the Cyprus Emergency (London, 2014).
• O’Sullivan, Kevin, Ireland, Africa and the end of empire: small state identity in the Cold War (Manchester, 2012).
• Skelly, Joseph Morrison, Irish diplomacy at the United Nations: national interests and the international order (Dublin, 1997).
• Sharp, Paul, Irish foreign policy and the European Community (Aldershot, 1990).
• Sloan, Geoffrey, The geopolitics of Anglo-Irish relations in the twentieth century (London, 1997).
• Wilson, Andrew J., Irish America and the Ulster conflict, 1968–95 (Washington, DC, 1995).
• Wright, Frank, Northern Ireland: a comparative analysis (Dublin, 1987).
• Tonra, Ben, The Europeanisation of national foreign policy: Dutch, Danish and Irish foreign policy in the European Union (Aldershot, 2001).
• Wylie, Paula, Ireland and the Cold War: recognition and diplomacy 1949–63 (Dublin, 2006).
• Whelan, Bernadette, The Marshall Plan and Ireland (Dublin, 2000).
• Williamson, Daniel C., Anglo-Irish relations in the early troubles, 1969–72 (London, 2017).

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