Dividing Ireland

At the beginning of World War I, the dominant strain within Irish nationalism sought devolved self-government within the United Kingdom. By the end of the war, nationalists pursued a free Irish Republic outside the British Empire. Thomas Hennessey looks at the extent to which the war led Ulster unionists to reassess their psychological relationship with the rest of the Ireland and with the United Kingdom, and the many consequences of this for Northern Ireland. He explains how and why the problems of Ulster have become intractable and deals with the juncture which irredeemably altered the problem beyond that which had gone on for centuries before.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Note on terminology	p. x
Introduction: The Crown and national identity in the United Kingdom and British Empire	p. xi
National identity, Home Rule and the Ulster question	p. 1
The Government of Ireland Bill	p. 1
Irish unionism and British nationality	p. 4
Constitutional Irish nationalism and the British Empire	p. 19
Cultural nationalism and Irishness	p. 28
Conclusion	p. 41
Ireland in 1914	p. 43
The eve of war	p. 43
Nationalist reactions	p. 47
Unionist reactions	p. 51
The Irish National Volunteers: southern unionist and nationalist tensions	p. 61
The passing of the Home Rule Bill	p. 71
Conclusion	p. 79
The Great War and national identity, 1914-16	p. 80
Unionism, Britishness and the war	p. 80
The Irish Volunteer split	p. 86
The Irish Party and recruiting	p. 97
Nationalists and conscription	p. 106
Unionists and conscription	p. 114
Conclusion	p. 123
The Easter Rising and aftermath	p. 125
The Easter Rising and cultural nationalism	p. 125
The Rising and the European war	p. 129
The impact of the Easter Rising in nationalist Ireland	p. 139
The 1916 talks and the decline of the Irish Party	p. 144
Irish Unionism and the partition proposals	p. 152
Conclusion	p. 158
Loyalty and the Crown: Nationalist divisions and Unionist-Nationalist rapprochement, 1916-18	p. 159
The rise of Sinn Fein	p. 159
Nationalists and the Crown: Sinn Fein and the Irish Party	p. 166
Nationalist and southern unionist rapprochement	p. 178
Ulster Unionist perceptions of nationalists and the war	p. 195
Conclusion	p. 200
The Irish Convention and the conscription crisis, 1917-18	p. 202
The Irish Convention	p. 202
Nationalist and Southern Unionist agreement at the Irish Convention	p. 206
Ulster Unionist opposition	p. 212
The conscription crisis	p. 220
The end of the war: towards armed struggle	p. 228
Conclusion	p. 233
Conclusion	p. 235
Notes	p. 240
Bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 270
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