ch. 1. 'Wild shamrock manners' : Ireland in 1600
ch. 2. 'Nationalism' and recusancy
ch. 3. Plantation : theory and practice
ch. 4. Confederate Ireland
ch. 5. Cromwellian Ireland
ch. 6. Restoration Ireland
ch. 7. Shipwreck and deliverance : the foundations of ascendancy
ch. 8. The ascendancy mind
ch. 9. Economy, society and the 'hidden' Irelands
ch. 10. The structure of politics
ch. 11. Americans, volunteers and the politics of 'patriotism'
ch. 12. 'Enthusiasm defying punishment' : revolution, Republicanism and reaction
ch. 13. The mobilization of popular politics
ch. 14. The famine : before and after
ch. 16. Land, politics and nationalism
ch. 17. The politics of Parnellism
ch. 18. The 'new' nationalism
pt. 19. War and revolution
22. The de Valera dispensation
ch. 23. 'Modern' Ireland?
