Books by Foster, R. F.

Modern Ireland 1600-1972 would be the place to start, and it is a book you can read more than once.  Here is an excellent Guardian profile of Foster , worth reading in its own right.  So what should I ask him?

That is from the often interesting Luck & the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970 , by R.F. Foster.  Here is a previous MR post on the Irish economic miracle.