'There are in print approximately two dozen general histories of Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. this is the best...' History [US]

• Map.  Introduction.  PART ONE UNDER STRAIN: FROM UNION TO FAMINE.  1. Politics: O'Conell Innovation and Ambiguity.  2. Society: Agrarian Crisis and Population Collapse.  3. Religion: The Birthpangs of Modernity.  PART TWO WINNERS AND LOSERS: FROM FAMINE TO PARTITION.  4. Society: Agricola Victor.  5. Politics: Nationalism and Localism.  6. Religion: Triumphs and Stockades.  PART THREE PROMISED LANDS: IRELAND SINCE 1921.  7. Politics: An Island Now Formally Divided.  8. Society: Stagnation, Boom, Slump, Boom.  9. Religion: Piety and its Spoils.  Bibliography.  Index.

'There are in print approximately two dozen general histories of Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. this is the best...' History [US]

• Map.  Introduction.  PART ONE UNDER STRAIN: FROM UNION TO FAMINE.  1. Politics: O'Conell Innovation and Ambiguity.  2. Society: Agrarian Crisis and Population Collapse.  3. Religion: The Birthpangs of Modernity.  PART TWO WINNERS AND LOSERS: FROM FAMINE TO PARTITION.  4. Society: Agricola Victor.  5. Politics: Nationalism and Localism.  6. Religion: Triumphs and Stockades.  PART THREE PROMISED LANDS: IRELAND SINCE 1921.  7. Politics: An Island Now Formally Divided.  8. Society: Stagnation, Boom, Slump, Boom.  9. Religion: Piety and its Spoils.  Bibliography.  Index.

'There are in print approximately two dozen general histories of Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. this is the best...' History [US]

• Map.  Introduction.  PART ONE UNDER STRAIN: FROM UNION TO FAMINE.  1. Politics: O'Conell Innovation and Ambiguity.  2. Society: Agrarian Crisis and Population Collapse.  3. Religion: The Birthpangs of Modernity.  PART TWO WINNERS AND LOSERS: FROM FAMINE TO PARTITION.  4. Society: Agricola Victor.  5. Politics: Nationalism and Localism.  6. Religion: Triumphs and Stockades.  PART THREE PROMISED LANDS: IRELAND SINCE 1921.  7. Politics: An Island Now Formally Divided.  8. Society: Stagnation, Boom, Slump, Boom.  9. Religion: Piety and its Spoils.  Bibliography.  Index.