List of Plates vii
List of Maps ix
Acknowledgements x
List of Abbreviations xii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Ends of the Century 1
1.2 Modes and Frameworks of Interpretation 2
2 The Birth of Modern Irish Politics, 1790-8 6
2.1 The Origins of the Crisis 6
2.2 Constitutional Radicalism to Revolution, 1791-8 9
3 Disuniting Kingdoms, Emancipating Catholics, 1799-1850 21
3.1 The Union, 1799-1801 21
3.2 The Catholic Question, 1799-1829 25
3.3 Justice for Ireland, 1830-41 33
3.4 Utilitarians and Romantics, 1841-8 42
3.5 The Orange Party, 1798-1853 53
4 The Ascendancy of the Land Question, 1845-91 62
4.1 Guilty Men and the Great Famine 62
4.2 Pivot or Accelerator? 73
4.3 Brigadiers and Fenians 78
4.4 Home Rule: A First Definition 98
4.5 Idealists and Technicians: The Parnellite Party, 1880-6 105
4.6 A Union of Hearts and a Broken Marriage: Parnellism, 1886-91 119
5 Greening the Red, White and Blue: The End of the Union, 1891-1921 128
5.1 The Irish Parliamentary Party, 1891-1914 128
5.2 Paths to the Post Office: Alternatives to the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1891-1914 153
5.3 The Parliamentarians and their Enemies, 1914-18 175
5.4 Making and Unmaking Unionism, 1853-1921 193
5.5 Other Men's Wounds: The Troubles, 1919-21 219
5.6 Trucileers, Staters and Irregulars 231
6 'Three Quarters of a Nation Once Again': Independent Ireland 247
6.1 Saorstat Eireann, 1922-32 247
6.2 Manifest Destiny: De Valera's Ireland, 1932-48 258
6.3 Towards a Redefinition of the National Ideal, 1948-58 276
6.4 The Age of Lemass, 1957-73 285
7 Northern Ireland, 1920-72: Specials, Peelers and Provos 300
8 The Two Irelands, 1973-98 338
8.1 The Republic, 1973-98 338
8.2 Northern Ireland, 1973-98 354
9 Epilogue: Ireland in the New Millennium, 1998-2024 372
9.1 The Republic, 1998-2024 372
9.2 Northern Ireland, 1998-2024 383
9.3 An End of Irish History? 400
Notes 403
Chronology 429
Maps 457
Select Bibliography and Further Reading 469
Index 498
