'This is a stimulating book. It asserts the value of the discipline of history against its current enemies. Those, on the one hand, who would dissolve history into literature, a form of story-telling where fiction is as good as fact. And those, on the other hand, who understand history as the source for useful propaganda' - Arthur Aughey, The Making of Modern Irish History'Between them they have compiled a really excellent and much needed study. The editors deserve particular congratulations.' - Charles Chenevix Trench, Irish Independent

• Introduction1. Eighteenth Century Ireland: Colony or Ancient Regime? 2. The Context and Causes of the '98 Rebellion 3. The Union and its Consequences 4. The Great Famine5. Irish Nationalism6. Irish Unionism7. Land: The Revisionist Controversy 8. 1916: The Meaning of a Rising9. British Policy and Ireland10. Literature, Nationalism and Society

'This is a stimulating book. It asserts the value of the discipline of history against its current enemies. Those, on the one hand, who would dissolve history into literature, a form of story-telling where fiction is as good as fact. And those, on the other hand, who understand history as the source for useful propaganda' - Arthur Aughey, The Making of Modern Irish History'Between them they have compiled a really excellent and much needed study. The editors deserve particular congratulations.' - Charles Chenevix Trench, Irish Independent

• Introduction1. Eighteenth Century Ireland: Colony or Ancient Regime? 2. The Context and Causes of the '98 Rebellion 3. The Union and its Consequences 4. The Great Famine5. Irish Nationalism6. Irish Unionism7. Land: The Revisionist Controversy 8. 1916: The Meaning of a Rising9. British Policy and Ireland10. Literature, Nationalism and Society

'This is a stimulating book. It asserts the value of the discipline of history against its current enemies. Those, on the one hand, who would dissolve history into literature, a form of story-telling where fiction is as good as fact. And those, on the other hand, who understand history as the source for useful propaganda' - Arthur Aughey, The Making of Modern Irish History'Between them they have compiled a really excellent and much needed study. The editors deserve particular congratulations.' - Charles Chenevix Trench, Irish Independent

• Introduction1. Eighteenth Century Ireland: Colony or Ancient Regime? 2. The Context and Causes of the '98 Rebellion 3. The Union and its Consequences 4. The Great Famine5. Irish Nationalism6. Irish Unionism7. Land: The Revisionist Controversy 8. 1916: The Meaning of a Rising9. British Policy and Ireland10. Literature, Nationalism and Society