Catholic Belfast and Nationalist Ireland in the Era of Joe Devlin, 1871-1934.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Note on the Text -- 1. North and South -- 2. 'Prisoners of the City': Catholic Belfast in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Ethnic Arithmetic: The Population of Belfast -- The Catholic Elite and Middle Class -- The Catholic Working Class -- Segregation and Conflict -- Priests, Press, and Politics -- 'Wee Joe' and the Brothers -- 3. A Minority Divided, 1890-1908 -- Fighting Parnell: 'Kitty O'Shea! Kitty O'Shea!' -- Fighting Healy: 'Your name is Devlin, I see you have your men well placed' -- Fighting the Unionists: The Belfast Corporation Bill -- Fighting the Bishop: 'A veritable Belfast Pooh-bah' -- The Struggle Continued, 1898-1903 -- 'The Rebels of Lucifer' -- The End of the Belfast Catholic Association -- 4. The Organizer of Spontaneity -- Fighting the Republicans: Belfast, the '98 Centenary and the UIL -- Fighting for 'the Great Chance of his Life' -- Devlin and the Diaspora -- 'A Catholic Orangeism in Green Paint'?: The Ancient Order of Hibernians -- 'A Paid Position': Running the United Irish League -- 5. 'A Theatre where we may Expose the Wrongs of Ireland': Parliamentarian -- From North Kilkenny to West Belfast -- 'Triumph of the Little Corporal': West Belfast, 1906 -- 'In the Closest Sympathy with Advanced Opinions': Devlin and Labour -- Screeching William and the Little Bag of Venom: The Break with O'Brien -- 'Rome Rule': The McCann Case, the National Insurance Act and the AOH Again -- 6. 'The Real Chief Secretary': Centre Stage, 1910-1914 -- On the Up: From Budget and Veto to Home Rule -- The Ulster Crisis -- Labour in Belfast and Dublin -- 'The Edge of the Volcano': Politicians and Volunteers, 1914 -- Volunteering in Belfast -- 7. Belfast, Ireland, and the War, 1914-1918 -- Volunteers, Recruits, and Rebels -- The Easter Rising.

'Partitionist!': The 1916 Negotiations -- Nationalists and Sinn Féiners, 1916-1917 -- The Irish Convention: Constitutionalism's Last Throw -- Nationalists and Sinn Féiners, 1918 -- The General Election of 1918 -- 8. 'Bloodshed and Partition': War in Ireland, 1919-1922 -- 'Voices in the Wilderness': Westminster, 1919-1920 -- On the Sidelines: Super Gunmen in Belfast, 1920-1921 -- War in Belfast, 1922 -- 9. The Stage Contracts: Northern Ireland, 1922-1934 -- 'A Mere English Labourite with a Belfast Accent'? -- The Boundary Commission -- Northern Minority Leader -- Decline -- 10. Conclusion: 'The Ulster Question is a Belfast City Question' -- A Single Man -- The Gerry Fitt of his Day? -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

This book offers a re-interpretation of Irish political history in the partition era from the perspective of the losers. It is a general text covering fifty years of Irish political history, as well as a case study of Catholic Belfast and a biography of Joe Devlin.

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