The new edition of Alvin Jackson's highly influential survey of 200 years of Irish history
In Ireland, 1798-1998: War, Peace, and Beyond, award-winning historian Alvin Jackson provides a well-balanced and authoritative account of modern Irish political history. Drawing on original research and extensive readings in current scholarship, the author surveys Irish political parties, leaders, and movements with a special emphasis on the tension between Irish nationalism and unionism.
Opening with a wide-ranging introduction to Irish history, the text describes the varieties and interconnections of the Irish political experience through a sustained and coherent historical narrative, beginning with the creation of militant republicanism and militant loyalism in the 1790s. Reader-friendly chapters interweave social, economic, and cultural material while offering fresh analyses of familiar historical issues and personalities.
This third edition contains expanded coverage of the most recent political developments in Ireland, both North and South. A new epilogue examines the impacts of the Good Friday Agreement, the global banking crisis, Brexit, and COVID-19 on Irish politics and institutions.
The most up-to-date interpretation of modern Irish political history available in a single volume, Ireland, 1798-1998: War, Peace, and Beyond, Third Edition, is a must-read for undergraduate and graduate students working on Irish and British political history, as well as general readers with an interest in the subject.
List of Plates vii
List of Maps ix
Acknowledgements x
List of Abbreviations xii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Ends of the Century 1
1.2 Modes and Frameworks of Interpretation 2
2 The Birth of Modern Irish Politics, 1790-8 6
2.1 The Origins of the Crisis 6
2.2 Constitutional Radicalism to Revolution, 1791-8 9
3 Disuniting Kingdoms, Emancipating Catholics, 1799-1850 21
3.1 The Union, 1799-1801 21
3.2 The Catholic Question, 1799-1829 25
3.3 Justice for Ireland, 1830-41 33
3.4 Utilitarians and Romantics, 1841-8 42
3.5 The Orange Party, 1798-1853 53
4 The Ascendancy of the Land Question, 1845-91 62
4.1 Guilty Men and the Great Famine 62
4.2 Pivot or Accelerator? 73
4.3 Brigadiers and Fenians 78
4.4 Home Rule: A First Definition 98
4.5 Idealists and Technicians: The Parnellite Party, 1880-6 105
4.6 A Union of Hearts and a Broken Marriage: Parnellism, 1886-91 119
5 Greening the Red, White and Blue: The End of the Union, 1891-1921 128
5.1 The Irish Parliamentary Party, 1891-1914 128
5.2 Paths to the Post Office: Alternatives to the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1891-1914 153
5.3 The Parliamentarians and their Enemies, 1914-18 175
5.4 Making and Unmaking Unionism, 1853-1921 193
5.5 Other Men's Wounds: The Troubles, 1919-21 219
5.6 Trucileers, Staters and Irregulars 231
6 'Three Quarters of a Nation Once Again': Independent Ireland 247
6.1 Saorstát Éireann, 1922-32 247
6.2 Manifest Destiny: De Valera's Ireland, 1932-48 258
6.3 Towards a Redefinition of the National Ideal, 1948-58 276
6.4 The Age of Lemass, 1957-73 285
7 Northern Ireland, 1920-72: Specials, Peelers and Provos 300
8 The Two Irelands, 1973-98 338
8.1 The Republic, 1973-98 338
8.2 Northern Ireland, 1973-98 354
9 Epilogue: Ireland in the New Millennium, 1998-2024 372
9.1 The Republic, 1998-2024 372
9.2 Northern Ireland, 1998-2024 383
9.3 An End of Irish History? 400
Notes 403
Chronology 429
Maps 457
Select Bibliography and Further Reading 469
Index 498
