Table of Contents

Introduction: The monarchy, Ireland and the Union; Part I. The Crown and O'Connellite Ireland: 1. Legitimacy, authority and emancipation; 2. Royalty and repeal; Part II. Victorian Values: 3. Allegiance and illusion in the famine era; 4. Loyalty and localism; 5. Nationalist revival and royal responses; Part III. Gladstonian Monarchism: 6. Ireland and the crown: the Gladstonian perspective; 7. The Irish royal project; 8. The uncrowned king and national identity; 9. The first home rule bill: the monarchical dimension; Part IV. Constructive Unionism and the Crown: 10. Allegiance and agrarian struggle; 11. Welfare monarchism and conciliation; Part V. Royalty and Revolution: 12. Home rule, crisis and the crown; 13. War and national transformation; Part VI. The Crown and Independent Ireland: 14. The monarchy and Ireland in the free state era; 15. Ireland and the New Elizabethan Age; Conclusion.

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A comprehensive analysis of the relationship of the British monarchy with Ireland from 1800 to the present.

About the Author

James Loughlin is Reader in History at the School of History and International Affairs, University of Ulster. His previous publications include Ulster Unionism and British National Identity since 1885 (1995) and The Ulster Question since 1945 (1998).

Reviews

Review of the hardback: 'It is a great read, based on meticulous scholarship. Every ingredient of a mesmerising soap is present – a rackety court, demonstrations and counter demonstrations, symbolic gestures, missed opportunities, the raising and lowering of statues, security scares, intrigues but the bucketful and a wonderful cast. The story travels from farce to tragedy via bathos at a rapid rate.' Books Ireland

Review of the hardback: 'This ground-breaking book … give[s] us a masterful account of an important aspect of recent history.' Contemporary Review

Review of the hardback: '… [the book] becomes a meticulous and fascinating study of the formulation and reformulation of British policy as it related to the possible role of the monarchy in an overall solution to the Irish question … What it does do superbly well … is to give an account of the formulation of British policy towards Ireland, and of the fate of attempts to implement that policy, as it related to the role of the monarchy in any settlement of the 'Irish question.'' H-Albion