Impact of the French Revolution : 'The Battle of Burke' : Tone or Castlereagh? -- The union between Britain and Ireland : one people? -- Daniel O'Connell and the road to emancipation 1810-1829 -- The repealer repulsed : O'Connell 1830-1845 -- The politics of hunger, 1845-1850 -- The Fenian impulse -- Parnellism : 'fierce ebullience linked to constitutional machinery' -- Squelching, 'by way of a hors d'oeuvre' : conflict in Ireland, 1891-1918 -- The politics of the gun or a 'saving formula', 1919-1923 -- 'Melancholy sanctity' in the south, 'perfect democracy in the north' : Ireland 1923-1966 -- 'Unbearably oldfashioned and pointless' : the era of the troubles, 1968-2005 -- Conclusion.