Alvin Jackson 
Ireland 1798-1998 
War, Peace and Beyond

Receiving widespread critical acclaim when first published,
Ireland 1798-1998 has been revised to include coverage of
the most recent developments. Jackson’s stylish and impartial
interpretation continues to provide the most up-to-date and
important survey of 200 years of Irish history.

* A new edition of this highly acclaimed history of Ireland,
reflecting both the very latest political developments and growth
of scholarship

* Jackson provides a balanced and authoritative account of the
complex political history of modern Ireland

* Draws on original research and extensive reading of the latest
secondary literature

* Jackson provides an impressive treatment of events coupled with
flowing narrative, delivered analytically and elegantly

Table of Content

List of Plates.

List of Maps.

Acknowledgements.

List of Abbreviations.

1 Introduction.

1.1 Ends of the Century.

1.2 Modes and Frameworks of Interpretation.

2 The Birth of Modern Irish Politics,
1790-8.

2.1 The Origins of the Crisis.

2.2 Constitutional Radicalism to Revolution, 1791-8.

3 Disuniting Kingdoms, Emancipating Catholics,
1799-1850.

3.1 The Union, 1799-1801.

3.2 The Catholic Question, 1799-1829.

3.3 Justice for Ireland, 1830-41.

3.4 Utilitarians and Romantics, 1841-8.

3.5 The Orange Party, 1798-1853.

4 The Ascendancy of the Land Question,
1845-91.

4.1 Guilty Men and the Great Famine.

4.2 Pivot or Accelerator?

4.3 Brigadiers and Fenians.

4.4 Home Rule: A First Definition.

4.5 Idealists and Technicians: The Parnellite Party,
1880-6.

4.6 A Union of Hearts and a Broken Marriage: Parnellism,
1886-91.

5 Greening the Red, White and Blue: The End of the Union,
1891-1921.

5.1 The Irish Parliamentary Party, 1891-1914.

5.2 Paths to the Post Office: Alternatives to the Irish
Parliamentary Party, 1891-1914.

5.3 The Parliamentarians and their Enemies, 1914-18.

5.4 Making and Unmaking Unionism, 1853-1921.

5.5 Other Men’s Wounds: The Troubles, 1919-21.

5.6 Trucileers, Staters and Irregulars.

6 ‘Three Quarters of a Nation Once Again’: Independent
Ireland.

6.1 Saorstát Éireann, 1922-32.

6.2 Manifest Destiny: De Valera’s Ireland,
1932-48.

6.3 Towards a Redefinition of the National Ideal,
1948-58.

6.4 The Age of Lemass, 1957-73.

7 Northern Ireland, 1920-72: Specials, Peelers
and Provos.

8 The Two Irelands, 1973-98.

8.1 The Republic, 1973-98.

8.2 Northern Ireland, 1973-98.

9 Ireland in the New Millennium.

9.1 The Republic, 1998-2008.

9.2 Northern Ireland, 1998-2008.

9.3 The End of Irish History?

Notes.

Chronology.

Maps.

Select Bibliography.

Index.

About the author

Alvin Jackson is Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. He was previously Professor of Modern Irish History at the Queen’s University of Belfast, Lecturer in Modern Irish History at University College Dublin and John Burns Visiting Professor at Boston College. His earlier publications include The Ulster Party (1989), Colonel Edward Saunderson: Land and Loyalty in Victorian Ireland (1995) and Home Rule: An Irish History 1800-2000 (2003).