Introduction / Lord Blake
The meaning and significance of 'Protestant ascendancy', 1787-1840 / Jacqueline Hill
Under the Union Flag: the Catholic church in Ireland, 1800-1870 / Donal Kerr
Gladstone and Home Rule, 1886 / Richard Shannon
Anglo-Irish literature, Gaelic nationalism and Irish politics in the 1890s / R.F. Foster
Lloyd George and the Irish / Kenneth Morgan
Britain, Ireland and the end of the Union / Ronan Fanning.