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]