Explains how William Gladstone responded to the 'Irish Question', and in so doing changed the British and Irish political landscape. Religion, land, self-government and nationalism became subjects of intensive political debate, raising issues about the constitution and national identity of the whole United Kingdom.

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Introduction: Tracts for the times? The enduring appeal of Gladstone and Ireland
1 History and pluralism: Gladstone and the Maynooth grant controversy
2 Gladstone, church and state
3 Anti-Gladstonianism and the pre-1886 Liberal secession
4 British Liberals and the Irish Home Rule crisis: the dynamics of division
5 ‘A deplorable narrative’: Gladstone, R. Barry O’Brien and the ‘historical argument’ for Home Rule, 1880–90
6 Gladstone and the Ulster question
7 Burke in Belfast: Thomas MacKnight, Gladstone and Liberal Unionism
8 The union of hearts depicted: Gladstone, Home Rule, and United Ireland
9 Gladstone and the Irish civil service
10 Accommodation, conciliation and cooperation: a Gladstonian legacy
11 Gladstone and the four nations
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