Ireland 1798-1998 : War, Peace and Beyond (Paperback)

List of Plates.

List of Maps.

Acknowledgements.

List of Abbreviations.

1 Introduction.

1.1 Ends of the Century.

1.2 Modes and Frameworks of Interpretation.

2 The Birth of Modern Irish Politics, 1790–8.

2.1 The Origins of the Crisis.

2.2 Constitutional Radicalism to Revolution, 1791–8.

3 Disuniting Kingdoms, Emancipating Catholics, 1799–1850.

3.1 The Union, 1799–1801.

3.2 The Catholic Question, 1799–1829.

3.3 Justice for Ireland, 1830–41.

3.4 Utilitarians and Romantics, 1841–8.

3.5 The Orange Party, 1798–1853.

4 The Ascendancy of the Land Question, 1845–91.

4.1 Guilty Men and the Great Famine.

4.2 Pivot or Accelerator?

4.3 Brigadiers and Fenians.

4.4 Home Rule: A First Definition.

4.5 Idealists and Technicians: The Parnellite Party, 1880–6.

4.6 A Union of Hearts and a Broken Marriage: Parnellism, 1886–91.

5 Greening the Red, White and Blue: The End of the Union, 1891–1921.

5.1 The Irish Parliamentary Party, 1891–1914.

5.2 Paths to the Post Office: Alternatives to the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1891–1914.

5.3 The Parliamentarians and their Enemies, 1914–18.

5.4 Making and Unmaking Unionism, 1853–1921.

5.5 Other Men’s Wounds: The Troubles, 1919–21.

5.6 Trucileers, Staters and Irregulars.

6 'Three Quarters of a Nation Once Again': Independent Ireland.

6.1 Saorstát Éireann, 1922–32.

6.2 Manifest Destiny: De Valera’s Ireland, 1932–48.

6.3 Towards a Redefinition of the National Ideal, 1948–58.

6.4 The Age of Lemass, 1957–73.

7 Northern Ireland, 1920–72: Specials, Peelers and Provos.

8 The Two Irelands, 1973–98.

8.1 The Republic, 1973–98.

8.2 Northern Ireland, 1973–98.

9 Ireland in the New Millennium.

9.1 The Republic, 1998–2008.

9.2 Northern Ireland, 1998–2008.

9.3 The End of Irish History?

Notes.

Chronology.

Maps.

Select Bibliography.

Index.