Foreword by Martin Mansergh
Introduction by K. Theodore Hoppen
Gladstone, Ireland, Scotland and the ‘Union of heart and spirit’
Alvin Jackson
Gladstone, Salisbury and the end of Irish assimilationism
K. Theodore Hoppen
Gladstone’s Irish Home Rule legacy: Philip Kerr and the making of the 1920s Government of Ireland Bill
Melanie Sayers
From private visit to public opportunity: Gladstone’s 1877 trip to Ireland
Kevin Mc Kenna
‘Irish peers are deservedly unpopular’: dealing with your father’s faux pas within the nineteenth-century family
Devon McHugh
‘This Proteus of politics’: the Dublin Evening Mail on Gladstone, 1868–98
Patrick Maume
The Irish Times, southern Protestants and the memory of Gladstone, 1898–1938
Eugenio Biagini
A careful Hellenism and a reckless Roman-ness: the Gladstone-Disraeli rivalry in the context of classics
Quentin Broughall
The religious dimension in Gladstone’s Home Rule analysis
John-Paul McCarthy
Gladstone and imperialism
Bernard Porter
‘A most arduous but a most noble duty’: Gladstone and the British Raj in India, 1868–98
David Omissi
Postscript: A statue of Gladstone for Dublin
Paula Murphy