"Palgrave Advances in Irish History" provides a much-needed historiographical and interpretative overview of Irish history. While there has always been a large amount of history written in and about Ireland much of it has focused only on the (putative) nation state and relations with Britain. It has only been in very recent decades that substantial work has been written by social and cultural historians, involving methods and archives not traditionally employed by political historians. This volume focuses not only on political histories but offers a comprehensive account of Irish history in its manifold aspects such as literary, labour, medical and women's history and history of the Irish population and diasporas, sexuality, and cultural identity, language and traditions. This work offers an introduction to the wide-ranging and dynamic writings of this younger generation of historians.