Ireland 1798-1998

ALVIN JACKSON is Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at University College Dublin, Boston College, and Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of eight books, including United Kingdoms: Multinational Union States in Europe and Beyond, 1800-1925, and is the general editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History. Jackson is an honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

• List of Plates viiList of Maps ixAcknowledgements xList of Abbreviations xii1 Introduction 11.1 Ends of the Century 11.2 Modes and Frameworks of Interpretation 22 The Birth of Modern Irish Politics, 1790–8 62.1 The Origins of the Crisis 62.2 Constitutional Radicalism to Revolution, 1791–8 93 Disuniting Kingdoms, Emancipating Catholics, 1799–1850 213.1 The Union, 1799–1801 213.2 The Catholic Question, 1799–1829 253.3 Justice for Ireland, 1830–41 333.4 Utilitarians and Romantics, 1841–8 423.5 The Orange Party, 1798–1853 534 The Ascendancy of the Land Question, 1845–91 624.1 Guilty Men and the Great Famine 624.2 Pivot or Accelerator? 734.3 Brigadiers and Fenians 784.4 Home Rule: A First Definition 984.5 Idealists and Technicians: The Parnellite Party, 1880–6 1054.6 A Union of Hearts and a Broken Marriage: Parnellism, 1886–91 1195 Greening the Red, White and Blue: The End of the Union, 1891–1921 1285.1 The Irish Parliamentary Party, 1891–1914 1285.2 Paths to the Post Office: Alternatives to the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1891–1914 1535.3 The Parliamentarians and their Enemies, 1914–18 1755.4 Making and Unmaking Unionism, 1853–1921 1935.5 Other Men’s Wounds: The Troubles, 1919–21 2195.6 Trucileers, Staters and Irregulars 2316 ‘Three Quarters of a Nation Once Again’: Independent Ireland 2476.1 Saorstát Éireann, 1922–32 2476.2 Manifest Destiny: De Valera’s Ireland, 1932–48 2586.3 Towards a Redefinition of the National Ideal, 1948–58 2766.4 The Age of Lemass, 1957–73 2857 Northern Ireland, 1920–72: Specials, Peelers and Provos 3008 The Two Irelands, 1973–98 3388.1 The Republic, 1973–98 3388.2 Northern Ireland, 1973–98 3549 Epilogue: Ireland in the New Millennium, 1998–2024 3729.1 The Republic, 1998–2024 3729.2 Northern Ireland, 1998–2024 3839.3 An End of Irish History? 400Notes 403Chronology 429Maps 457Select Bibliography and Further Reading 469Index 498