Table of Contents

Volume 1: Colonialism
The Shackles of the State and Hereditary Animosities
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Abbreviations and Glossary
Terminology
1.1: An Audit of Violence after 1966
1.2: Conceptual Conspectus: Colonialism
1.3: Wild and Bitter Fruits and His Majesty's Royal Pains: Colonial Triangles and Trilemmas, 1603-1800
1.4: Overlooked by the Tall Kingdom before Dying of Political Economy: Ireland under the Union, 1801-1857
1.5: Crying Aloud for Vengeance and the Power of a Colonial Caste: Toward Union's End, 1858-1914
1.6: "'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-El-Bar": Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1914-1922
1.7: Scratches across the Heart: Comparing Ireland's Partition
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Brendan O'Leary is the Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and World Leading Researcher Visiting Professor of Political Science at Queen's University Belfast. He is the inaugural winner of the Juan Linz Prize of the International Political Science Association for lifetime contributions to the study of federalism, democratization, and multinational states, and was recently elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and
to Membership of the US Council on Foreign Relations. Educated in Northern Ireland, Oxford, and the London School of Economics & Political Science he advised parties and governments during and after
the making of the Good Friday Agreement. His extensive publications include Power-Sharing in Deeply Divided Places (co-editor, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), The Northern Ireland Conflict (OUP, 2004), and Explaining Northern Ireland (co-author, Blackwell, 1995).

Reviews

O'Leary colors his work throughout with lively writing, moving past equivocation and pulling no punches in his assessments of participants or previous scholarship. He sees the disputatious state of Northern Ireland as the result of attempts to instill an Irish or British national identity among its residents....Although the cumulative length of this work might be daunting, the author has thoughtfully structured his books and chapters in a way that is accessible to both non-experts and specialists. Whatever the audience, this is a work of canonical importance for understanding Northern Ireland.
*M. J. O'Brien, Franciscan University of Steubenvill, CHOICE*

The detailed coverage is astonishing, the range immense. The book exemplifies best practice in social science and history, combining both disciplines, asking analytic questions of the historical record and widening the remit of social science - above all by looking carefully both at political calculations and the details of constitutional arrangements. It is important to stress that he offers us an analytic history of Ireland as a whole, paying special attention to developments in the Irish Free State and to the Republic thereafter.
*John A Hall, McGill University in Montreal, Dublin Review of Books*

The most prolific, perceptive and powerfully analytical writer on the north in the last 35 years, Brendan O'Leary, has just produced his magnum opus.
*Brian Feeney, Irish News*