Conscription, US Intervention and the Transformation of Ireland 1914-1918

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation
Biography of France's Representatives

Introduction
Echoes of Sarajevo
Conventional narratives
Plea for a new historiography of the Irish Revolution
Diplomatic sources and French narratives

1 Political Crisis, British Intentions and Wartime
Uncertainties (January 1913-March 1916)
Home Rule and Ulster Unionism: the impossible settlement
War breaks out: Asquith's strategy, recruitment, and the leap
into the unknown
A distant war: propaganda and the war economy
Laissez-faire
policy and French concerns
Conclusion

2 Was the Rebellion a Turning Point? (April 1916-October 1916)
Allegiance and opportunities: US neutrality and the
preparation for an insurrection
Rebellion, reactions and extrapolations?
Aftermath and executions: the transformation of Ireland?
Partition: ongoing deadlock and critical solutions
Procrastination and the end of the old administrative regime
Conclusion

3 All Changed, Changed Quietly (October 1916-March 1917)
October 1916 and the threat of conscription
Opposing conscription, supporting Redmond
The decline in recruitment
The North-Roscommon by-election: the twilight of Sinn Féin
Conclusion

4 Resisting Conscription, Redefining Ireland
(March 1917-October 1917)
March 1917: the Home Rule controversy
Re-organizing
Sinn Féin: towards the Árd Fheis
The South Longford by-election:
the men of Easter Week
saved your sons from conscription
Tightening the grip: the East-Clare election
The Kilkenny by-election
Árd Fheis: the Sinn Féin Convention in October 1917
The shifting position of the Roman Catholic clergy
The growing number of Sinn Féin sympathizers
Conclusion

5 The Wartime Internationalization of the Irish question
(April 1917-March 1918)
US intervention: a blow to the separatist movement?
Colonel House and Ireland
The April 1917 Irish Convention: a 'flat failure' or a
'political camouflage'?
British procrastination
From fear of another black '47 to fear of conscription
(January-March 1918)
Unholy alliances, survival, and despair
The goal of the Peace Conference takes hold
Conclusion

6 Conscription, Betrayal and the Agony of the Irish
Parliamentary Party (April 1918)
From the Ulster 'conscription cry' to the German offensive
Heated debates and some revelations
A stab in the back of the dead man: a second execution
of dead heroes
'The miracle has been performed'
Preparing the fight here and abroad
An unpopular move among the British authorities in Ireland
Conscription: a counter-Wilsonian move?
Conclusion

7 Endgame (May 1918-December 1918)
The German plot
On the road to victory: summer 1918
December 1918: the triumph of the Internationalists
Conclusion

Epilogue
How the Great War transformed Ireland
Diverging destinies
National minorities, post-war
order and disillusions

Bibliography
Index