Table of Contents

Nicholas Canny: Foreword
1: Kevin Kenny: Ireland and the British Empire: An Introduction
2: Jane H. Ohlmeyer: A Laboratory for Empire?: Early Modern Ireland and English Imperialism
3: Thomas Bartlett: Ireland, Empire, and Union 1690-1801
4: Kevin Kenny: The Irish in the Empire
5: Alvin Jackson: Ireland, the Union, and the Empire 1800-1960
6: Vera Kreilkamp: Fiction and Empire: The Irish Novel
7: Deirdre McMahon: Ireland, the Empire, and the Commonwealth
8: Stephen Howe: Historiography
9: Joe Cleary: Postcolonial Ireland
Index

About the Author

Professor Wm Roger Louis is Editor-in-Chief and Kerr Professor of English History and Culture, University of Texas, Austin.

Reviews

a worthwhile contribution to the unending 'polemic' inspired by Ireland's uniquely ambiguous association with the British Empire.
*David Fitzpatrick, English Historical Review*