Contents: Introduction : the Irish controversy -- Hugh Lane and the decoration of Dublin, 1904 -- The man who died for the language : Rev. Dr. O'Hickey and the Irish language controversy, 1908 -- The shewing-up of Dublin Castle : Lady Gregory, Shaw, and Blanco Posnet, August 1909 -- Hunger and hysteria : the "save the Dublin kiddies" campaign, October-November 1913 -- The afterlife of Roger Casement : memory, folklore, ghosts, 1916 -- Epilogue : controversy as "heritage" -- Chronologies of the controversies
Includes bibliographical references (S. [259] - 27) and index