Preface

Introduction

1: POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS

Shane O'Neill Departs from the Court of Elizabeth: Irish, English, Scottish Perspectives and the Paralysis of Policy, July 1559 to April 1562

Ciaran Brady

Tudor Northumberland: British History in an English County

Steven G. Ellis

Politically Reactionary Brits?: The Promotion of Anglo-Scottish Union, 1603-1707

Allan I. Macinnes

The Scottish and Irish Unions: The Victorian View in Perspective

Ron Weir

2: CULTURE AND IDENTITY

Differing Devotions: Patterns of Religious Practice in the British Isles, 1500-1700

Raymond Gillespie

The Stuarts and Deliverance in Irish and Scots-Gaelic Poetry, 1690-1760

Eamonn O Ciardha

Second City Syndrome: Reflections on Three Irish Cases

David Disckson

`Imagining Ulster': The North of Ireland and British National Identity, 1880-1921

James Loughlin

Accommodation and Resistance: A Comparison of Cultural Identities in Ireland and Wales, c. 1880-1914

Paul O'Leary

3: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Wage Trends in the Regions of the United Kingdom, 1860-1913

George R. Boyer

Timothy J. Hatton

Comparative Output and Growth in the Four Countries of the United Kingdom, 1861-1911

Frank Geary

Tom Stark

Integration or Diversity? Anglo-Irish Economic Relations, 1922-39

Mary E. Daly

4: LAW AND ADMINISTRATION

What Would a `Four Nations' Approach to the Study of Eighteenth-Century British Social Policy Entail?

Joanna Innes

Unnatural Death in Four Nations: Contrasts and Comparisons

S.J. Connolly

The Criminal Law 1692-1760: England and Ireland Compared

Neal Garnham

Crime, Prosecution and Mercy: English Influence and Scottish Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century

M. Anne Crowther

The Politics of Governance in the Four Countries of the United Kingdom, 1912-22

Eunan O'Halpin

Index