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"Cover" -- "Title page" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Chapter 1: Irish parties and Irish politics" -- "The Irish republic: post-colonial politics in a western European state" -- "Political culture and political organisation" -- "Geography, economics and method" -- "Chapter 2: The origins of Irish popular politics" -- "Roots of Irish popular nationalism" -- "The beginnings of urban radical political organisation, 1750–1800" -- "Agrarianism, religion and revolution, 1760–1800" -- "Chapter 3: The development of nationalist popular politics, 1800–48" -- "Secret societies before the Famine: the rise of Ribbonism" -- "Political mobilisation in pre-Famine nationalist Ireland" -- "Chapter 4: Secret societies and party politics after the Famine" -- "The social background" -- "Electoral politics after the Famine" -- "The recrudescence of republicanism: Fenianism and the Agrarians" -- "The IRB and Irish politics after the Land War" -- "Chapter 5: Agrarianism, nationalism and party politics, 1874–95" -- "Political mobilisation and the agrarian campaign" -- "The development of the Irish National League" -- "The Parnell split: the collapse of the Irish National League" -- "Chapter 6: The reconstruction of nationalist politics, 1891–1910" -- "The rebuilding of the parliamentary party" -- "The rise of the Hibernians" -- "Chapter 7: The new nationalism and military conspiracy, 1900–16" -- "The development of cultural nationalism and the origins of Sinn Féin" -- "Fenians, Volunteers and insurrection" -- "Chapter 8: Elections, revolution and civil war, 1916–23" -- "The rise of Sinn Féin" -- "The electoral landslide of December 1918" -- "The Republic of Ireland, 1919–23" -- "Chapter 9: The origins of the party system in independent Ireland" -- "The ancestry of the Irish party system

"Cover" -- "Title" -- "1. Introduction" -- "Another country" -- "Coming of age" -- "2. Politics in the new republic, 1949–60" -- "An uneasy decade" -- "The Eagle and the Bear" -- "The crisis of the mid-fifties" -- "Springtime for Lemass" -- "3. Dublin newspapers and the crisis of the fifties" -- "Dublin newspapers in the post-war world,1948–62" -- "Farming and the economic crisis" -- "The slow acceptance of industrialisation" -- "New departures" -- "4. From field to factory" -- "From field" -- "To factory" -- "5. What we have we hold: The world of work" -- "Captain Ludd: Protect our jobs" -- "Rings, cash and carry" -- "6. Learning and training: The education wars" -- "Educate that you may escape" -- "Educate that you may be rich" -- "7. Dublin opinions: A distant mirror" -- "Sé mo thuairim: It is my opinion" -- "Limits of sweet reason" -- "God will still provide" -- "Notes" -- "Images" -- "Copyright" -- "About the Author" -- "Dedication" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "About the Publisher

Tom Garvin's survey of the 1950s is an interpretative narrative, based largely on a close reading of contemporary newspaper reports and analyses. He identifies the primary causes of the calamity as a revolutionary gerontocracy that overstayed its welcome

"Cover" -- "Title Page" -- "Epigraphs" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Chapter 1: Irish revolutionaries" -- "Revolution, Irish nationalists and modernisation" -- "The revolutionaries and the revolution" -- "Chapter 2: Men in the middle" -- "Revolution and the petty bourgeoisie" -- "Civil servants, teachers and other scribes" -- "Chapter 3: The formation of the revolutionary élite" -- "Introduction" -- "The republican activists, 1858–1900" -- "Education and status resentment" -- "The educational cul-de-sac" -- "The revolutionary élite, 1900–1923" -- "Chapter 4: Priests and patriots" -- "Introduction" -- "Priests and the fear of the modern" -- "Élites in a siege culture" -- "Chapter 5: The politics of languages and literatures" -- "The Gaelic League" -- "Many young men of twenty go to language school" -- "The party politics of Irish" -- "The politics of English popular culture" -- "Chapter 6: Ideological themes of separatist nationalism" -- "Past, future, youth and age" -- "Politics" -- "Clericalism, anti-clericalism and inhibited secularism" -- "Economics" -- "Equality" -- "Chapter 7: The ideology of defeat: the mind of republicanism after 1922" -- "The delegitimising of British rule" -- "The split of 1922" -- "Republicanism in defeat" -- "Obduracy and the historicist dream" -- "Contamination and the present" -- "Chapter 8: Epilogue" -- "Aftermath" -- "Comparative perspectives" -- "Notes" -- "Glossary of Irish political terms" -- "Note on Irish-language terms" -- "Copyright" -- "About the Author

The Irish national revolution has been a long time dying. This is due in part to its artificial continuance in Northern Ireland and in part to the survival of its slogans, in fossilized form, as official symbols of the democratic regime in the Republic of Ireland. The main phase of the movement is, however, long over; even the ideological residue left by it is in an advanced state of decomposition, and Patrick Pearse and James Connolly have no intellectual heirs of any importance.