Northern Ireland Reading

TransConflict recommends the following books for those interested in learning more about the history, politics and culture of Northern Ireland.

For other reading lists created by TransConflict, please click here.

Categories

Click on the icons or titles below for further information. For every purchase made through the following links, TransConflict will receive a small commission that goes towards projects and research.

Literature and First-Hand Accounts

Killing Rage – by Eamon Collins
Fifty Dead Men Walking – by Martin McGartland
Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland – by Ed Moloney
The Informer – by Sean O’Callaghan
Bear in Mind These Dead – by Susan McKay
Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died Through the Northern Ireland Troubles – by Chris Thornton, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and David McKittrick

Academic and Policy-Oriented

Northern Ireland: Conflict and Change – by Prof Jonathan Tonge
Special Relationships: Britain, Ireland and the Northern Ireland Problem – by Paul Arthur
The Troubles: Ireland’s Ordeal, 1969-96, and the Search for Peace – by Tim Pat Coogan
Loyalists – by Peter Taylor
A Secret History of the IRA – by Ed Moloney

To recommend additional books for this or other reading lists – or to suggest entirely new reading lists – then please contact TransConflict.