Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-662) and index

A history of Ireland from 1600 through 1972, examining its social, cultural, economic, and political factors

Varieties of Irishness -- 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. 15. Ireland abroad -- ch. 16. Land, politics and nationalism -- ch. 17. The politics of Parnellism -- ch. 18. The 'new' nationalism -- pt. 19. War and revolution -- 20. The takeover -- 21. In a free state -- 22. The de Valera dispensation -- ch. 23. 'Modern' Ireland?

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