This is the first comprehensive history of Ireland and the British Empire. It examines the different phases of Ireland's colonial status from the seventeenth century until the present, along with the impact of Irish people, politics, and nationalism on the Empire at large. The result is a new interpretation of Irish history and its place in the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire.

• Introduction: Ireland and the British Empire


• 1: Jane Ohlmeyer: A Laboratory for Empire?: Early Modern Ireland and English Imperialism


• 2: Thomas Bartlett: 'This famous island set in a Virginian sea': Ireland in the British Empire, 1690-1801


• 3: Kevin Kenny: The Irish in the Empire


• 4: Vera Kreilkamp: Empire and Fiction: The Irish Novel


• 5: Alvin Jackson: Ireland, the Union, and the Empire


• 6: Deirdre McMahon: Ireland, the Empire, and the Commonwealth


• 7: Stephen Howe: Historiography


• 8: Joe Cleary: Postcolonial Ireland


• Index

Professor Wm Roger Louis
Editor-in-Chief
Kerr Professor of English History and Culture, University of Texas, Austin