Ireland: the politics of enmity, 1789-2006

Impact of the French Revolution : 'The Battle of Burke' : Tone or Castlereagh?

The union between Britain and Ireland : one people?

Daniel O'Connell and the road to emancipation 1810-1829

The repealer repulsed : O'Connell 1830-1845

The politics of hunger, 1845-1850

The Fenian impulse

Parnellism : 'fierce ebullience linked to constitutional machinery'

Squelching, 'by way of a hors d'oeuvre' : conflict in Ireland, 1891-1918

The politics of the gun or a 'saving formula', 1919-1923

'Melancholy sanctity' in the south, 'perfect democracy in the north' : Ireland 1923-1966

'Unbearably oldfashioned and pointless' : the era of the troubles, 1968-2005

Conclusion.