Second impression.The edge of the front boards is lightly rubbed, else a clean, unmarked and sold copy. 220 pages. Contents Introduction / Tom Garvin Preface / Walter McDonald Pt. I. Questions of Peace. Ch. I. Of Certain Recent Statements made by Representative Irish Catholics; and of some Questions Raised Thereby. Ch. II. Of Whether Ireland was ever a United and Fully Independent Nation. Ch. III. Of Whether Ireland ever Acquiesced in Loss of Independence. Ch. IV. Of the Possibility of Loss of Nationhood without Acquiescence; and of Prescription Between Nations. Ch. V. Of Three Degrees of Conquest; and of the Efficacy of Forced Consent to Transfer of Authority. Ch. VI. Of the Effect of a Transfer of Jurisdiction Secured by Corruption. Ch. VII. Of How a People Hitherto Independent may be Bound to Union with Others; and of How this may be Secured. Ch. VIII. Of some Conditions of Complete Self-Determination. Ch. IX. Of the Principle of Home Rule; and of Colonial Home Rule. Ch. X. Of Majority Rule and the Ulster Question. Ch. XI. Of the Basis of Taxation; and of the Financial Relations Between Great Britain and Ireland I. Extracts from Letters of the Prime Minister, Mr. D. Lloyd George, Proposing Home Rule for Ireland, with Conditions of the Same II. Extract from the Report of Ulster Unionist Delegates to the Irish Convention III. The Bishop of Raphoe on Irish Taxation Pt. II. Questions of War. Ch. I. Of Preparation for War: Conscription. Ch. II. Of Certain Causes that Justify War. Ch. III. Of the Pressure that may be Applied to Secure Local Self-Government. Ch. IV. Of the Conduct of War: (1) of Bombardment of Towns, and of Reprisals. Ch. V. Of the Conduct of War: (2) of Blockade. Ch. VI. Of the Conduct of War: (3) of the Submarine. Ch. VII. Of some Consequences of War App. Of Ireland Since the Union; and of the Prosperity of Holland, Denmark, and Other Small Nations.