Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Illustrations VIII
4. 1. The Insular Condition and Early Habitation 1
5. 2. A Heroic Age: The Celtic, Viking, and Norman Inheritance 43
6. 3. Late Medieval Ireland and the Tudor Conquest 73
7. 4. The Making of the Protestant Ascendancy: The Seventeenth Century 113
8. 5. Ireland as a Protestant “Nation”: The Eighteenth Century 141
9. 6. Catholic Ireland Resurgent: The Nineteenth Century 167
10. 7. A New State Established: Triumphs and Dilemmas 209
11. 8. The Irish Abroad: Examples and Conclusions 243
12. 9. Literature and the Irish 271
13. Notes 279
14. Bibliography 287
15. Index 293