Dividing Ireland Book

	Acknowledgements
	Note on terminology
	Introduction: The Crown and national identity in the United Kingdom and British Empire
1	National identity, Home Rule and the Ulster question	1
	The Government of Ireland Bill	1
	Irish unionism and British nationality	4
	Constitutional Irish nationalism and the British Empire	19
	Cultural nationalism and Irishness	28
2	Ireland in 1914	43
	The eve of war	43
	Nationalist reactions	47
	Unionist reactions	51
	The Irish National Volunteers: southern unionist and nationalist tensions	61
	The passing of the Home Rule Bill	71
3	The Great War and national identity, 1914-16	80
	Unionism, Britishness and the war	80
	The Irish Volunteer split	86
	The Irish Party and recruiting	97
	Nationalists and conscription	106
	Unionists and conscription	114
4	The Easter Rising and aftermath	125
	The Easter Rising and cultural nationalism	125
	The Rising and the European war	129
	The impact of the Easter Rising in nationalist Ireland	139
	The 1916 talks and the decline of the Irish Party	144
	Irish Unionism and the partition proposals	152
5	Loyalty and the Crown: Nationalist divisions and Unionist - Nationalist rapprochement, 1916-18	159
	The rise of Sinn Fein	159
	Nationalists and the Crown: Sinn Fein and the Irish Party	166
	Nationalist and southern unionist rapprochement	178
	Ulster Unionist perceptions of nationalists and the war	195
6	The Irish Convention and the conscription crisis, 1917-18	202
	The Irish Convention	202
	Nationalist and Southern Unionist agreement at the Irish Convention	206
	Ulster Unionist opposition	212
	The conscription crisis	220
	The end of the war: towards armed struggle	228
	Conclusion	235
	Notes	240
	Bibliography	261
	Index	270