Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
A Note on Conventions ix
Map of Ireland xi
Chronology of Key Events xii
Introduction: Ireland on the Edge 1
Part I The Sixteenth Century
1 New Faith, New Kingdom 11
2 Elizabethan Ireland 23
3 Tyrone's Rebellion: The Nine Years War 35
Where Historians Disagree 44
Part II The Seventeenth Century
4 Plantation 49
5 The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 63
6 The Cromwellian Conquest and the Restoration 69
7 Two Kings 78
Where Historians Disagree 85
Part III The Eighteenth Century
8 Ascendancy 89
9 Hidden Irelands 99
10 Patriots 106
11 The French Disease and the Union 115
Where Historians Disagree 124
Part IV The Nineteenth Century
12 The Age of O'Connell 131
13 Famine and Diaspora 142
14 New Departures 152
15 Culture Wars 168
Where Historians Disagree 180
Part V The Twentieth Century
16 Revolution 187
17 Two Irelands 203
18 The Second Republic 218
19 Between Boston and Berlin 226
Where Historians Disagree: An Epilogue 240
Notes 245
Further Reading and Online Sources 261
Index 267