Part I. Geography, occupations and social classes

Irish demography since 1740 / John Fitzgerald

Occupation, poverty and social class in pre-famine Ireland, 1740-1850 / Peter M. Solar

Famine and famine relief, 1740-2000 / Mary E. Daly

Languages and identities / Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh

Catholic Ireland, 1740-2016 / Colin Barr and Daithí Ó Corráin

Protestants / Andrew R. Holmes and Eugenio F. Biagini

Town and city / David Dickson

The farmers since 1850 / Paul Rouse

The Irish working class and the role of the state, 1850-2016 / Henry Patterson

The big house / Terence Dooley

The changing role of the middle-classes in twentieth-century Ireland / Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd

Part II. People, culture and communities

Consumption and living conditions, 1750-2016 / Andy Bielenberg and John O'Hagan

Housing in Ireland, 1740-2016 / Ellen Rowley

Food in Ireland since 1740 / Juliana Adelman

Literacy and education / Ciaran O'Neill

Health and welfare, 1750-2000 / Catherine Cox

Old age, death and mourning / Patricia Lysaght

Celebrations and the rituals of life / Diarmuid Ó Giolláin

Gender roles in Ireland since 1740 / Lindsey Earner-Byrne and Diane Urquhart

Childhood since 1740 / Sarah-Anne Buckley and Susan Riordan

Marriage, sexuality and the law in Ireland / Maria Luddy

Crime and punishment / Mark Finnane and Ian O'Donnell

Associational life, leisure and identity since 1740 / William Murphy

Part III. Emigration, immigration and the wider Irish world

Irish emigration in a comparative perspective / Kevin Kenny

The diaspora in comparative and multi-generational perspective / Bronwen Walter

Minorities / Eugenio F. Biagini

Political violence and the Irish diaspora / Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid

The Irish in Australia and New Zealand / Angela McCarthy

Irish America / Timothy Meagher

The Irish in Britain / Roger Swift and Sean Campbell

Missionary empires and the worlds they made / Sarah Roddy

Cultural transmission, Irish associational culture and the 'marching' tradition / D.A.J. MacPherson

Migration and integration since 1991 / Irial Glynn

Epilogue: Remembering and forgetting in modern Irish history / Guy Beiner and Eunan O'Halpin

Appendix: Mapping Ireland's changing demography, 1834-2002 / Niall Cunningham and Ian Gregory.