Chapter 1. Introduction
Definitions
Making Ireland English
Structure
The archives
Historiography
Part I: The reconstitution of Ireland's aristocracy, 1590s-1670s
Chapter 2. The transforamtion of the peerage
Peerage in 1603
Inflation of honours
Resident peerage in 1628
Resident peerage in 1641
Mid-century elevations
Mid-century creations
Resident Peerage in 1670 and 1685
Securing the succession
Conclusion
Chapter 3. The transformation of noble culture
Nobles in Irish society
Honour
Contesting and defending honour
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Landed nobility
Titled landholders in 1641 and c. 1670
Titled landholding in Country Dublin
Tenure
Plantations
The Munster plantation
The first Earl of Cork
The Roches and MacCarthys
The Butlers
The Ulster plantation
The Earls of Antrim
The informal plantations
The formal plantations
Other early Stuart
Settlements
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Religion
Catholicism and kingship
the Catholic Church
Lay patronage of the Catholic Church
Clerical connections
Presbyterianism and the peers
The Church of Ireland and the peers
Personal piety
Wardships and conversions
Sincerity of conversions
Conclusion
Chapter 6. Marriage
Women in Stuart society
Courtship
Frequency of marriage
Age at marriage
Geographic origin of brides
Mixed marriages
Social status of brides
The economic importance of marriage
Relationships
Conclusion
Part II: The peerage in politics
Chapter 7. Power, politics and public office
The Stuart court
The exercise of national and local power
Law and order
Conclusion
Chapter 8. Early Stuart parliaments
The 1613-15 Parliament
The Graces
The 1634-5 Parliament
The 1640-1 Parliament
The opposition peers
Conclusion
Chapter 9. Civil war
A military caste
War in Scotland and rebellion in Ireland
The impact of the 1641 rebellion
The Baronial context of the civil wars
War and politics
Confederate Catholics
Baronial leadership
Conclusion
Chapter 10. Survival
Exile
Reprisals
Catholic survival
Transplantation
The case of Antrim
Protestant survivors
Architects of restoration
Conclusion
Chapter 11. The restoration land settlement
A revolution in titled landholding?
The winners
The survivors
The losers
Conclusion
Chapter 12. Political life
The Irish Parliament, 1661-6
The politics behind the land settlement
Restoration Dublin
Later Stuart politics
The army
James II
Conclusion

Part III: The sinews of power
Chapter 13. Income
Levels of wealth
Landed entrepreneurs and improving landlords
Urbanization and commercialization
Overseas expansionism
Conclusion
Chapter 15. Lineage and formation
Kinship and Clientage networks
Children
Schooling and Education
Grand tours and the exercise of arms
Conclusion
Chapter 16. Death and memory
Preparing for death
Cause of death
Funerals
Memorialization and posterity
Conclusion
Chapter 17. Conclusion
Notes
Appendix I. Lands held by resident titled nobles in 1641, ranked according to size
Appendix II. Office holding and political activity of resident peers, c. 1600-c.1690
Appendix III. Military and political activity of resident peers during the 1640s.
Appendix IV. Peers recorded in the 1660 poll tax (the so-called '1659 census')
Appendix V. Attendance and activity in the House of Lords, 1661-6
Appendix VI. The land settlement and the process of restoration.