Varieties of Irishness ch. 1. 'Wild shamrock manners' : Ireland in 1600 ch. 2. 'Nationalism' and recusancy ch. 3. Plantation : theory and practice ch. 4. Confederate Ireland ch. 5. Cromwellian Ireland ch. 6. Restoration Ireland ch. 7. Shipwreck and deliverance : the foundations of ascendancy ch. 8. The ascendancy mind ch. 9. Economy, society and the 'hidden' Irelands ch. 10. The structure of politics ch. 11. Americans, volunteers and the politics of 'patriotism' ch. 12. 'Enthusiasm defying punishment' : revolution, Republicanism and reaction ch. 13. The mobilization of popular politics ch. 14. The famine : before and after ch. 15. Ireland abroad ch. 16. Land, politics and nationalism ch. 17. The politics of Parnellism ch. 18. The 'new' nationalism pt. 19. War and revolution 20. The takeover 21. In a free state 22. The de Valera dispensation ch. 23. 'Modern' Ireland?