Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Military Context; Approaches: Ireland, Britain, Europe, and Empire; Chapter 2: Defining an Irish Military Elite; Defining Military Irishness; The Culture of the Victorian Officer Corps: Modernisation Versus Tradition; Politics, Class, and Imperial Authority; The Army, Irish Officers, and the British Empire; Placing the Military in Irish Society; Outlining a New Approach to Ireland's Officer Corps

Chapter 3: 'One Ought To Do What One Can for People in His Circ': Patronage and Affinity among Irish Military ElitesGetting In; Getting On; Getting Out; Chapter 4: Ireland's Imperial Moment: Wolseley and Roberts in Command; Professionalism and Military Irishness: Roberts' Generation; Wolseley and Irishness; Wolseley and Roberts Ascendant: Commanders-in-Chief, 1890-1902; Chapter 5: Aid to the Civil Power: The Military Establishment, the Land War, and the Home Rule Crisis, 1879-1914; Irish Officers, Rural Life, and the Landed Interest

'A Strong Detachment of Redcoats Thoroughly Cows the Most … Mutinous Locality': The Military Establishment and the Land WarHome Rule Agitation: 'Akin to Actual Warfare' or 'Relative Calm'?; Politics, Professionalism, and Identity: The Curragh Incident, 1914; Chapter 6: Status Quo Ante Bellum: The Irish Military Establishment, 1914; Counter-Elite Challenges to the Irish Military Establishment; Military Institutions and Irish Society in 1914; Religion; Politics and Blocked Mobility; Chapter 7: Irish Officers in the Great War; Mobilisation: Irish Officers and Imperial Allegiance

Irish Officers in the Indian ArmyCommissioned from the Ranks: Class in the Irish Officer Corps; Contesting the Irish Military Tradition: The Easter Rising, 1916; Chapter 8: The Irish Military Elite and the War of Independence 1918-22; The 'Temporary Gentleman' in Revolutionary Ireland, 1919-21; Martial Law, 1920-22; 'Former British Army Officers … [Who] Found Difficulty in Settling Down': The Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary; Chapter 9: Barriers Broken: Partition, the Free State, and Empire, 1922-25; Civil War and Partition, 1920-23

Departures and Returns: Ireland and the British Empire in the 1920s'The Old Order Passes': Military Irishness in the Free State; 'The War Killed Society'; Chapter 10: Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Manuscript Sources; British Library; Bureau of Military History; Cambridge University Library; Cork County Archives; Glucksman Library, Limerick University; Imperial War Museum; Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London; Manuscripts and Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin; National Archives of Ireland; National Army Museum; National Library of Ireland