Contents

List of Figures

The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors’ Preface

Preface

Author’s Acknowledgements

Editor’s Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.    The Times, O’Connell and Repeal — 1843

2.    Punch, ‘Rint’ and ‘Repale’ — 1843

3.    Traversers and Priests — 1844-1845

4.    ‘The Commissioner’— 1845

5.    Imagining a Famine/Imaginary Famine — 1845

6.    ‘The Battlefield of Contending Factions’ — January to June 1846

7.    Parsing Pharaoh’s Dream — July to December 1846

8.    ‘A Transition of Great Difficulty’ — January to March 1847

9.    The Death of Daniel O’Connell — May 1847

10.  ‘A Conspiracy Against Life’ — June to December 1847

11.  Charles Trevelyan and the ‘Great Opportunity’ — January 1848

12.  The Uprising at Boulagh — 1848

13.  A Dream of the Future — 1849

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index