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Index Note: page numbers in italics denote illustrations or maps Abbey Theatre 175 sovereignty 390 Abbot, Charles 28 as Taoiseach 388–9 abdication crisis 292 and Trimble 379, 409, 414 Aberdeen, Earl of 90 Aiken, Frank abortion debate 404 ceasefire 268–9 Academical Institutions (Ireland) Act 52 foreign policy 318–19 Adams, Gerry and Lemass 313 assassination attempt 396 and Lynch 325 and Collins 425 and McGilligan 304–5 elected 392 neutrality 299 and Hume 387–8, 392, 402–3, 407 reunification 298 and Lynch 425 WWII 349 and Paisley 421 air raids, Belfast 348, 349–50 St Andrews Agreement 421 aircraft industry 347 on Trimble 418 Aldous, Richard 414 Adams, W.F. 82 Alexandra, Queen 174 Aer Lingus 288 Aliens Act 292 Afghan War 114 All for Ireland League 157 Agar-Robartes, T.G. 163 Allen, Kieran 308–9, 313 Agence GénéraleCOPYRIGHTED pour la Défense de la Alliance MATERIAL Party 370, 416 Liberté Religieuse 57 All-Ireland Committee 147, 148 Agricultural Credit Act 280 Allister, Jim 422 agricultural exports 316 Alter, Peter 57 agricultural growth 323 American Civil War 93, 97–8 Agriculture and Technical Instruction, American note affair 300 Dept of 147 American War of Independence 93 Ahern, Bertie 413 Amnesty Association 95, 104–5, 108–9 and Paisley 419–20 Andrews, John 349, 350–1 resignation 412–13, 415 Anglesey, Marquis of 34 separated from wife 424 Anglicanism 4, 65–6, 169 Index 513 Anglo-American war 93 Ashbourne Purchase Act 133, 150 Anglo-Irish Agreement (1938) 294, 295–6 Ashe, Thomas 203 Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) Ashtown ambush 246 aftermath 395, 405 Asquith, Herbert 47, 160–1, 162, 164, 194, challenged 385 197, 221 FitzGerald 383, 386–7, 401 Association, Treaty of 258–60, 272 Hume 407–8 Athanasianism 65 Long War 416 Atlantic, Battle of 297–8 Paisley 419 Attlee, Clement 351–2, 354 Ulster Unionist Party 406–7 Aud 200 Anglo-Irish Free Trade Agreement 319 Augusteijn, Joost 247 Anglo-Irish literary revival 168, 169, 174, Auxiliaries 252, 253 175 Anglo-Irish trade 295, 345 Bachelor’s Walk massacre 167, 196 Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921) 416 Balbriggan, sacking of 252 and Craig 337 Baldwin, Stanley 339 Cumann na nGaedheal 277, 279–80 Balfour, Arthur James 132, 133, 134, 147, end of 292, 294 148 governor generalship 290–1 Balfour, Gerald 145, 147, 155, 221, 223, 228 IRA 248, 249–50 Ball, F.E. 226 and RIC 334 ballads 9–10, 27 Anglo-Irish war (Irish War of Ballaghadereen shootings 384 Independence) 56, 225, 248, 252–4, Ballinamuck, Battle of 20 334, 391, 419, 481 Ballingarry, Battle of 55 anti-burgher schism 65 Ballot Act 109, 215 anti-clericalism 102, 186 Ballybay confrontation 48 anti-Parnellites 142–3, 149–50 Ballymena, captured 19 Anti-Partition League (1919) 230, 231 Ballynahinch, Battle of 17, 19, 21 Anti-Partition League (1945) 353–4 Ballynure insurgents 17 anti-semitism 294 Ballyseedy killings 268 Antrim, Battle of 19 Baltinglass, Battle of 308 Apprentice Boys’ demonstration 369 Barbour, John Milne 349, 350 Archdale, E.M. 220 barley crop 289 Ardilaun, Lord (Guinness, A.E.) 173–4, Barren Land Act 11 226 Barrett, Dick 268, 269 Arianism 65 Barrie, H.T. 238 Armagh, Archbishop of 51, 52 Barry, Kevin 247 Armagh, County 8, 9, 14, 366, 368, 397 Barry, Tom 247, 248–9, 254, 265 arms affair 325, 326 Bartlett, Thomas 1, 9, 12, 29 arms raids 354, 395 Barton, Robert 255, 266 Army Comrades’ Association (Blueshirts) Bates, John 60, 61, 64 296 Bates, Richard Dawson 332–3, 339, 349, Army Convention 261–2 350 Army Council 275 ‘Baton Convention’ 144, 157, 166–7 Army Mutiny 278 Batten, Henry 252 Arnold, Bruce 376 Beach, Michael Hicks 111, 132 Ashbourne, Lord (Gibson, E.) 126, 177, 225 Béal na mBláth ambush 263 514 Index Beckett, J.C. 1, 4–5, 17, 21 Bowman, John 298 Belfast 4, 20, 332, 348, 349–50, 398 Boyce, D. George 54, 76, 211, 243 see also Stormont Assembly boycotts 119, 122, 276, 341 Belfast Conservative Society 61, 64 Boyne, Battle of the 17 Belfast Regional Survey and Plan (Matthew) ‘The Boys of Sandy Row’ 58 358 Bradford, Robert 393 Belfast Telegraph 410 Bradlaugh, Charles 99, 124 Belleek fort 335 Bradshaw, Brendan 3 Benson report 358 Braghall, Thomas 11 Bentham, Jeremy 45, 54 Breen, Dan 265 Beresford, John 7 Brett, Sergeant 101 Beresford family 32–3 brewing industry 8, 160 Bertaud, Jean-Paul 20 Brighton bombing 393–4 Beveridge, William 300, 301, 305 Britain Bew, Paul 86, 104, 114, 118, 127, 131, 138, Crimean War 79, 92 146, 196, 198, 305, 312, 328, 352, 361, and France 92–3 387, 401, 409 and Great Famine 77, 84–5, 87 Biggar, J.G. 110, 112, 115, 118, 187 House of Commons 118 Binchy, Daniel 279 House of Lords 26, 161 Birkenhead, Lord (Smith, F.E.) 291 intelligence network 253, 417 Birmingham Six 393 Irish Land Acts 159–60 Birrell, Augustine 153, 156, 158–9, 162–4, and Parnell 38 199 post-WWI 250 bishops 29, 30, 51, 88 protectionism 347 Black and Tans 252, 253 and Redmond 38 Black Friday 355 social reforms 168–9 Blackstock, Allan 15 war debt 278 Blair, Tony 68, 388, 389, 409, 414, 417–20 Britain, Battle of 299 Blaney, Neil 314, 325 British Army 195–6, 199, 369–70, 371, Bleakley, David 371 398 Bloody Friday 392 British Relief Association 73, 75 Bloody Sunday (1920) 245, 253, 315 British-Irish Council 389, 409 Bloody Sunday (1972) 371–2, 391, 398 British–Irish Inter-governmental Bloomfield, Kenneth 357 Conference 389 Blueshirts 296, 297 Brodrick, St John: see Midleton, Lord Blythe, Ernest 276–7, 283, 337–8 Brooke, Basil (Lord Brookeborough) Boers 107, 149, 189, 235, 254–5 and Attlee 354 Bogdanor, Vernon 128–9 dissenters 366–7 Boland, Gerry 314 ennobled 355 Boland, Kevin 314, 325, 385 reports 358 Boland’s Mill 203 reunification 298 Bolshevism 284 unemployment 356 Bompard’s expedition 101 Unionism 353 Bono 402 UVF 223 Border Campaign: see Operation Harvest World War II 351 Boundary Commission 256, 270, 276, see also Brooke–Mayhew talks 277–8, 336–8, 340–1 Brooke, Peter 387, 389 Index 515 Brookeborough: see Brooke, Basil Callaghan, Gerard and Daniel 59 Brooke–Mayhew talks 387, 402, 408 Callan Society 86–7 ‘Brothers Grim’ 421, 423 Callanan, Frank 138, 143 Brown, Gordon 421 Cameron Commission 371 Browne, Michael 309 Campaign for Democracy in Ulster 364 Browne, Noel 302, 307–8, 309 Campaign for Social Justice 364 Bruce, Steve 397 Campbell, Gordon 274 Brugha, Cathal 181, 244, 259, 265, 270 Campbell, J.H.M. 226, 227, 274 Brunswick clubs 35, 59–60 Campbell, Sheena 396 Bruton, John 388 Campbell-Bannerman, Henry 153 Bryce, James 138 Canary Wharf bomb 388, 393 Buckingham Palace Conference 196, 206, Canning, George 28, 33 236, 237 Capital Investment Advisory Committee 311 Buckland, Patrick 346 Carlow 18 Bull, Philip 152 Carlyle, Thomas 54 Buller, Redvers 132 Carnarvon, Lord 126, 129 Burdett, Francis 31–2 Carrickshock ambush 41 burial-ground question 30 Carroll, William 113–14 Burke, Edmund 12 Carson, Edward 228 Burke, Richard (Edmund’s son) 12 as attorney general 194 Burke, Richard (of IRB) 103 Catholic university 156 Burke, T.H. 122, 134 and Craig 237 Burntollet bridge ambush 366, 369 Criminal Law Amendment Act 132–3 Bush, George W. 413, 417 as influence 425 business class 221, 344 loyalist militancy 236 Butler, Máire 184 and O’Connell, compared 31, 47 Butler Act (1944) 352 and Stephens, compared 98 Butt, Isaac Ulster Unionism 163–4, 226–7, 240–1 death of 114 UUC 229 Dublin corporations 47 Wilde 134 Dublin University Magazine 172–3 Castle Document 201 electoral success 216 Castlebar, Battle of 20 farmer movement 105–6 Castlereagh, Lord 7, 21, 25, 27, 28 and Gladstone 104–5 Castlereagh holding centre 397 Home Government Association 109 Castlereagh raid 416–17 Home Rule League 113 Castlerock killings 396 Home Rule movement 96, 106, 110–12 Catalpa episode 107 Irish language 176, 179 Cathleen ni Houlihan (Gregory and Yeats) Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society 175 60 Catholic Association 31, 34, 35, 58–9, 62 Unionism 47 see also New Catholic Association Buttites 110, 111–12, 116 Catholic Board 29 Byrne, Edward 293 Catholic Church child abuse 390, 415 Cabra demonstration 95, 104 Cumann na nGaedheal 283 Cahera, Great Famine 74 and Gaelicism 172 Cahirciveen killings 268 and Marx 4 516 Index Catholic Church (cont’d) Centre Party: see National Centre Party Maynooth 51–2 Chamberlain, Annie 295 parliamentarianism 207 Chamberlain, Joseph 125–6, 128, 129–30 priests 37, 76, 84, 88, 116 Chamberlain, Neville 294–6, 298, 345 propertied 2 Charitable Donations and Bequests republicanism 308–9 (Ireland) Act 51, 52 veto question 7, 28–32, 35 Charles, Prince 393 see also emancipation Chester raid 99, 100 Catholic Committee (1760) 11–12, 13, 14 Chichester-Clark, James 369–70 Catholic Committee (1804) 29 child abuse 390 Catholic Convention 12, 36 Child Abuse Inquiry 415 Catholic Defence Association 88, 89 Childers, Erskine 246, 264, 268, 270, 303, Catholic Emancipation Act 12, 36, 59 320 Catholic population Christian Brothers 247, 390 burials 30 Christian Democracy 57, 304 discriminated against 360 ‘Chuckle Brothers’ 421 disenfranchised 7, 8, 27–8 Church of Ireland education 352–3 anti-O’Connell 64, 65 40-shilling freeholders 11, 12, 31–3, 35, clergy’s living conditions 41 36, 37 disestablishment 42, 91, 103, 105, 169, growth 2, 9 215, 217–19 identity 390 evangelicalism 216 middle class 361, 364 and House of Commons 7 in North 340–1, 342–3, 352–3, 363 O’Connell 41–2 response to claims 11–12 Parnell 124–5 universities 52, 53, 155, 156 and Presbyterians 214 Whig appointments 45–6 restructured 218–19 workers, expelled 340 souperism 76, 86, 191 see also emancipation tithe 40–1 Catholic Question 27–36 Unionism 216–17 Catholic relief bill 28, 30, 31–2 Church Temporalities Act 41, 42 Catholic