Selected Bibliography
The following list comprises key suggested readings to accompany Common Ground: Ireland and the EU, an exhibition on display at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum from July 2026 until January 2027. Most of the historical articles featured can be accessed through the Irish Newspaper Archives.
Secondary sources
Diarmaid Ferriter, Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (2012)
Brian Girvin, ‘Ireland Transformed? Modernisation, Secularisation and Conservatism Since 1973’ in Thomas Bartlett (ed), The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume IV (2018)
Michael Holmes and Kathryn Simpson (eds), Ireland and the European Union: Economic, Political and Social Crises (2021)
Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Workers and the EU: Reflections on Ireland’s Membership (2023)
Michael Kennedy, ‘Irish Foreign Policy, 1919-1973’ in Thomas Bartlett (ed), The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume IV (2018)
Martin Maguire, Fighting for the Clerical Grades: A History of the Civil, Public and Services Union, 1922-2017 (2022)
Mary C. Murphy, Northern Ireland and the European Union (2014)
John O’Hagan, ‘The Irish Economy, 1973 to 2016’ in Thomas Bartlett (ed), The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume IV (2018)
Giada Lagana, The European Union and the Northern Ireland Peace Process (2012)
Deirdre Foley, ‘“Their Proper Place’: Women, Work and the Marriage Bar in Independent Ireland c.1924-73′, Social History, 47/1 (2022)
Suzanna Jobling, ‘Legislating for Equal Pay and Employment Equality in the Republic of Ireland in the 1970s’, Irish Economic and Social History, 50/1 (2023)
