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1. Introduction -- 1.1. Ends of the century -- 1.2. Modes and frameworks of interpretation -- 2. The birth of modern Irish politicism 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? |