The Palgrave Companion to Northern Irish History

by Alan O'Day, Neil Fleming

This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about the history of Northern Ireland from its establishment in 1921 to the present day. Designed to bring together reliable information in one volume for the first time. It contains a full chronology of the entire period and detailed sections on political, social, economic, religious, conflict and cultural history. This unique work will become a standard reference book for scholars, journalists, politicians, civil servants, students and all readers with an interest in the history of Northern Ireland.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1999

About the author

Alan Earle O’Day received his AB from the University of Michigan (1962) and his MA from Roosevelt University (1965). After two years of doctoral study at Northwestern University, he went to London, where he completed his PhD at King’s College, University of London (1971). After holding a succession of short-term academic appointments at the universities of Newcastle, Salford, and East Anglia, and two years at Universität Giessen in Germany, he took a position at North London Polytechnic (now London Metropolitan University) in 1976, where he remained until his retirement in 2001.