Part 1 Introduction: state-building and authority in Ireland - state, society and state-building, authority, sovereignty and legitimacy. Part 2 The colony: the establishment of the colony - medieval collision and English institutions in Ireland, the Kingdom of Ireland and the military conquest, the protestant statelet - the struggle for land and control of Irish institutions, the protestant nation and the authority of Irish institutions, the end of the experiment - Grattan's Parliament and changing Irish Society, the failure of reform and the end of the statelet. Part 3 The British state of Ireland: the failure to establish a legitimate state - crises, nation and modernization, participation, political parties and dmocratization, the response of Irish society - Part 1 - distribution, land reform and the British state, penetration of Government and the demand for self-government, the response of Irish society - Part 2 - national identity and the rise for nationalism, Arthur Griffith and the Hungarian solution, Patrick Pearse and republicanism, the end of the state - legitimacy, home rule and unionism, legitimacy and rebellion against Brtitish rule, legitimacy, sovereignty and self-determination. Part 4 The Irish state: the establishment of the Irish free state - the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the provisional government and the transfer of power, the breakdown of authority, civil war and the establishment of the Irish free state.; the establishment of the state's legal framework - writing the constitution of the Irish free state, the constitution of the Irish free state; the establishment of the state's authority - political order and civilian authority; Dail Eireann and moral authority, dominion status and internal sovereignty; the Irish state - dominion status and legal authority, Ireland and authority. Selling points: original survey of 800 years of Irish constitutional history; deals with questions still directly relevant to the Northern ireland situation. Market - students of Irish history, students of politics.
