Note on the Text

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Introduction: Tyranny in Ireland? vii
3. Note on the Text xviii
4. Contents xix
5. Translator’s Preface 1
6. Historical Introduction 5
7. First Epoch: From 1169 to 1535 6
8. Second Epoch: From 1535 to 1690 23
9. Third Epoch: From 1688 to 1755 49
10. Fourth Epoch: From 1776 to 1829 80
11. PART I
12. I. External Appearance of Ireland. Misery of Its Inhabitants 121
13. II. A Bad Aristocracy Is the Primary Cause of All the Evils of Ireland. The Faults of This Aristocracy Are, That It Is English and Protestant 134
14. III. Tithes 182
15. IV. Some Remarks on the North of Ireland 188
16. V. General Consequences from What Has Preceded— Character of the Irishman—Explanation of Its Faults 191
17. VI. Summary of the Preceding Chapters— Illusions of the Irish Aristocracy 203
18. PART II
19. How Ireland, Aided by the Liberties She Received or Acquired, Has Resisted Oppression 209
20. VII. An Examination of the Causes by Which Ireland, at Present a Free Country, Tends to Become a Democratic Country 216
21. PART III
22. I. The Three Principal Remedies That Have Been Proposed for Irish Evils 263
23. II. Remedies Proposed by the Author—The Civil, Political, and Religious Privileges of the Aristocracy Must Be Abolished 290
24. III. It Would Be an Evil to Substitute a Catholic Aristocracy for the Protestant Aristocracy 297
25. IV. How and byWhat Means Aristocracy Should Be Abolished in Ireland 301
26. PART IV
27. I. What Will England Do? 335
28. II. What Each of the English Parties Could Accomplish for Ireland 341
29. III. General Survey of the State of Ireland— Conclusion—A Glance at the Political and Religious Future of the Country 361
30. Preface, 1863: A Report on the Present State of Ireland (1862–1863) 379
31. Chronology. Index
32. Chronology 407
33. Index 411