Introduction. Interpreting late early modern Ireland James Kelly; Part I. Politics c.1730-c.1845: 1. Irish Jacobitism, 1691-1790 Vincent Morley; 2. The politics of Protestant Ascendancy, 1730-1790 James Kelly; 3. Ireland during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, 1793-1815 Thomas Bartlett; 4. The impact of O'Connell, 1815-1850 Patrick M. Geoghegan; 5. Popular politics, 1815-1845 Maura Cronin; Part II. Economy and Demography: 6. Society and economy in the long eighteenth century David Dickson; 7. The Irish economy, 1815-1880: agricultural transition, the communications revolution and the limits of industrialisation Andy Bielenberg; 8. Population and emigration, 1730-1845 Brian Gurrin; 9. Women, men and the family, 1730-1880 Sarah-Anne Buckley; Part III. Religion: 10. The Catholic Church and Catholics in an era of sanctions and restraints, 1690-1790 Thomas O'Connor; 11. The re-energising of Catholicism, 1790-1880 Colin Barr; 12. Protestant dissenters, c.1690-1800 Ian McBride; 13. Protestantism in the nineteenth century: revival and crisis Andrew R. Holmes; Part IV. Shaping Society: 14. Language and literacy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Aidan Doyle; 15. Futures past: enlightenment and antiquarianism in the eighteenth century Michael Brown and Lesa Ni Mhunghaile; 16. Art and architecture in the long eighteenth century Christine Casey; 17. Civil society, 1700-1850 Martyn J. Powell; 18. Sport and recreation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries James Kelly; 19. Bourgeois Ireland, or, on the benefits of keeping one's hands clean Ciaran O Neill; 20. The growth of the state in the nineteenth century Virginia Crossman; Part V. The Irish Abroad: 21. The Irish in Europe in the eighteenth century, 1691-1815 Liam Chambers; 22. 'Irish' migration to America in the eighteenth century? Or the strange case for the 'Scots/Irish' Patrick Griffin; 23. Ireland and the empire in the nineteenth century Barry Crosbie; Part VI. The Great Famine and its Aftermath: 24. The Great Famine, 1845-1850 Peter Gray; 25. Irish emigration, c.1845-1900 Kevin Kenny; 26. Post-famine politics, 1850-1879 Douglas Kanter; 27. Afterword Toby Barnard.