- Translator’s Preface
- Historical Introduction
- First Epoch: From 1169 to 1535
- Chap. I
- Sect. 1. Political Condition of Ireland in the Twelfth Century
- Sect. 2. The Still Recent Invasion of the Danes
- Sect. 3. Influence of the Court of Rome
- Chap. II
- Sect. 1. Political Condition of the Irish an Obstacle to the Conquest
- Sect. 2. Second Obstacle to the Completion of the Conquest: The Relation of the Anglo-Norman Conquerors to England, and of England to Them
- Sect. 3. Third Obstacle to the Conquest: The Condition Imposed on the Natives by the Conquerors
- Chap. I
- Second Epoch: From 1535 to 1690
- Chap. I: Religious Wars
- Sect. 1. How, When England Became Protestant, It Must Have Desired That Ireland Should Become So Likewise
- Sect. 2. Of the Causes That Prevented Ireland from Becoming Protestant
- Sect. 3. How England Rendered Ireland Protestant—Protestant Colonisation—Elizabeth and James I
- Sect. 4. Protestant Colonisation—Charles I
- Sect. 5. Civil War—The Republic—Cromwell
- Sect. 6. The Restoration of Charles II
- Chap. I: Religious Wars
- Third Epoch: From 1688 to 1755
- Chap. I: Legal Persecution
- Chap. II: The Penal Laws
- Special Character of the Penal Laws
- Another Special Character of the Penal Laws
- Legal Persecution beyond the Limits of the Law
- Persecutions Continued When Passions Ceased
- Which of the Penal Laws Were Executed, Which Not
- The Whiteboys
- Fourth Epoch: From 1776 to 1829: Revival and Enfranchisement of Ireland
- Chap. I: Effects of American Independence on Ireland
- Sect. 1. First Reform of the Penal Laws, 1778
- Sect. 2. Second Effect of American Independence on Ireland (1778 to 1779)—The Irish Volunteers
- Sect. 3. Independence of the Irish Parliament
- Sect. 4. Legal Consequences of the Declaration of Irish Independence
- Sect. 5. Abolition of Certain Penal Laws—Consequences of the Declaration of Parliamentary Independence
- Sect. 6. Continuation of the Volunteer Movement—Convention of 1783
- Sect. 7. Corruption of the Irish Parliament
- Sect. 8. Is a Servile Parliament of Any Use?
- Chap. II: The French Revolution—Its Effects in Ireland
- Sect. 1. 1789
- Sect. 2. Other Effects of the French Revolution—Abolition of Penal Laws
- Sect. 3. Other Consequences of the French Revolution—Reaction
- Sect. 4. French Invasion of Ireland—Insurrection of 1798—Consequences of the Insurrection of 1798—The Union—Constitutional and Political Effect of the Union
- Chap. III: Catholic Emancipation in 1829
- Chap. I: Effects of American Independence on Ireland
- First Epoch: From 1169 to 1535
- Part I
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- Chap. I: External Appearance of Ireland. Misery of Its Inhabitants
- Chap. II: A Bad Aristocracy Is the Primary Cause of All the Evils of Ireland. The Faults of This Aristocracy Are, That It Is English and Protestant
- Sect. 1. Civil Consequences
- Subsect. 1. Extreme Misery of the Farmers—Accumulation of the Population on the Soil—Absenteeism&mdsah;Middlemen—Rack-Rents—Want of Sympathy between Landlord and Tenant
- Subsect. 2. Competition for Land—Whiteboyism—Social Evils—Inutility of Coercive Measures—Terror in the Country—Disappearance of Landlords and Capital
- Sect. 2. Political Consequences
- Subsect. 1: The State—Hatred of the People to the Laws—A Public Accuser Wanting in Ireland—Unanimity of the Jury in Ireland—Legal Functionaries Peculiar to Ireland
- Subsect. 2: The County
- Subsect. 3: Municipal Corporations
- Subsect. 4: The Parish
- Judicial Authority
- Sect. 3. Religious Consequences
- Legal and Official Establishment of Protestant Worship in the Midst of Catholic Ireland—The University and the Protestant Schools
- Sect. 1. Civil Consequences
- Chap. III: Tithes
- Resistance to the Payment of Tithes
- Chap. IV: The North of Ireland
- Chap. V: Irish Character
- Chap. VI: Illusions of the Irish Aristocracy
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- Part II (Annexed to Part I in the Translation): How Ireland Has Resisted Oppression
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- Chap. VII: How Ireland Tends to Democracy
- Sect. 1. The Association
- Sect. 2. O’Connell
- Sect. 3. The Catholic Clergy
- Sect. 4. The Presbyterians
- Sect. 5. The Middle Classes
- Sect. 6. On the State of Parties in Ireland
- Chap. VII: How Ireland Tends to Democracy
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- Part III
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- Chap. I: The Three Principal Remedies That Have Been Proposed for the Evils of Ireland
- Sect. 1. Increase of Industrial Employment
- Sect. 2. Emigration
- Sect. 3. Poor Laws
- Chap. II: Remedies Proposed by the Author—The Civil, Political, and Religious Privileges of the Aristocracy Must Be Abolished
- Chap. III: It Would Be an Evil to Substitute a Catholic Aristocracy for the Protestant Aristocracy
- Chap. IV: How the Irish Aristocracy Should Be Abolished
- Sect. 1. Necessity of Centralisation
- Sect. 2. Necessity of Rendering the People Landed Proprietors
- Subsect. 1: State of Landed Property in England
- Subsect. 2: State of Landed Property in Ireland
- Subsect. 3: Entails in England and Ireland
- Subsect. 4: Primogeniture in England
- Sect. 3. Means of Abolishing the Religious Privileges of the Aristocracy
- Subsect. 1: Supremacy of the Anglican Church
- Subsect. 2: Payment of the Catholic Clergy
- Subsect. 3: Equality of All Creeds
- Chap. I: The Three Principal Remedies That Have Been Proposed for the Evils of Ireland
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- Part IV
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- Chap. I: What Will England Do?
- Chap. II: Relations of English Parties to Ireland
- Sect. 1. The Tory Party
- Sect. 2. The Radical Party
- Sect. 3. The Whig Party
- Subsect. 1: Whig Reforms of Religious Privileges
- Subsect. 2: Whig Reforms of Civil Privileges
- Subsect. 3: Whig Reforms of Political Privileges
- Chap. III: General Survey of the State of Ireland
- Final Reflections
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- Preface, 1863: A Report on the Present State of Ireland (1862–1863)
- Chronology
- Index


Ireland
Social, Political, and Religious
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