CONTENTS.

Preface [vii]

Chapter

I. The Ulster Covenant. The Questions Stated. Ireland under the Celts and the Danes [1]

II. Ireland from the time of Henry II to the time of Henry VIII [13]

III. Ireland under the Tudors [24]

IV. The Seventeenth Century, until the end of the reign of James II [37]

V. The period of the Penal Laws [49]

VI. The earlier part of the reign of George III. The acquisition of independence by the Irish Parliament [68]

VII. The independent Parliament. The Regency Question. The commencement of the Rebellion [79]

VIII. The Rebellion [100]

IX. The Union [116]

X. The period from the Union until the rejection of the first Home Rule Bill [132]

XI. The Unionist Government of 1886 [155]

XII. The Gladstonian Government of 1892. The Political Societies [179]

XIII. Ireland under the present Government [194]

XIV. Criticism of the Bill now before the Country [218]

XV. The danger to the Empire of any form of Home Rule. The Questions answered [232]

Index [259]