BENJAMIN GROB-FITZGIBBON is Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University, USA.

• Introduction PART I: THE PERIOD OF OVERT MILITANCY, 1912 TO 1914 The Death of Constitutionalism in Ulster The Rise of Militant Unionism An Irish Nationalist Response Enter the Politicians To the Edge of the Abyss A Failure of Governance PART II: THE PERIOD OF CLANDESTINE ORGANIZATION, 1914 TO 1916 The Arming of the Irish Volunteers A War Distracts from Trouble in Ireland The Storm Clouds Gather An Easter Rising and Its Aftermath A Failure of Imagination PART III: THE PERIOD OF GUERILLA WAR, 1916 TO 1921 Business as Usual A New Kind of Politics Ireland's Fateful Year An Unacknowledged Insurgency Intelligence Reorganized A Failure of Action Conclusion

'The most complete narrative to date of the issues involving the conflict between the British government and the Irish movement for independence in the Great War era...I recommend it to you with enthusiasm.' - Martin A Miller, Professor in the Department of History at Duke University, USA 'The great strengths of this manuscript, I think, are that it opens new material to scholarly analysis, expands our understanding of the Irish rebellion, and intersects with a growing body of literature on the history of intelligence.' - Alex Roland, Duke University, USA