1. Economy and society -- Population -- Economic change -- The role of the state -- 2. Land, religion, nationalism 1848-79 -- The encumbered estates act -- The tenant league -- The independent Irish party -- Cardinal Cullen's church -- Orangeism -- Fenianism -- Justice for Ireland -- Home rule-the first phase -- 3. The land war 1879-82 -- Economic crisis -- 'The west's awake' -- The new departure -- Parnell -- Agitation -- Concession -- 4. The significance of the land war -- Deference -- Consciousness -- Town and country -- Economic consequences -- 5. Home rule and unionism 1880-1914 -- Parnell and his party -- The liberal alliance -- The plan of campaign -- The fall of Parnell -- Moral force unionism -- Physical force unionism -- 6. Anglicisation or modernisation? 1892-1918 -- 'The necessity for de-anglicising Ireland' -- Pearse -- Connolly -- The rising of 1916 -- Sinn Féin -- The general election of 1918