CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
[The Home Rule Case]3
The Case that Does Not Change:
(i.)The Sea.
(ii.)The Race.
(iii.)The Creed.
CHAPTER II.
[The Home Rule Case]19
The Case that Has Changed and is Now Stronger:
(i.)The Councils and
(ii.)The Land.
CHAPTER III.
[The Home Rule Case]35
The Case that Has Changed—(continued):
(i.)The Congested Districts.
(ii.)The Board of Agriculture.
(iii.)Old-Age Pensions.
(iv.)The Universities.
CHAPTER IV.
[The Home Rule Plan]47
The Nineteenth Century Bills and the Bill of 1912.
CHAPTER V.
[Home Rule Difficulties]63
Ulster.
CHAPTER VI.
[Home Rule Difficulties]77
Rome Rule or Home Rule?
CHAPTER VII.
[Home Rule in History]89
Five Centuries of Limited Home Rule (1265-1780).
CHAPTER VIII.
[Home Rule in History]99
Grattan's Parliament.
CHAPTER IX.
[Home Rule in the World]113
The Case from Analogy.
CHAPTER X.
[Home Rule Finance]125
APPENDICES.
A. [The Home Rule Bill of 1912]143
B. [The Shrinkage of Ireland]160
C. [The Act of Union]163
D. [The Home Rule Bills of 1886 and 1893]167
E. [The Irish Board of Agriculture]184
F. [The Reduction in Irish Pauperism]186
G. [The Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881]187
H. [The Congested Districts Board]188
J. [Irish Canals and Railways]190
K. [Home Rule Parliaments in the British Empire]191