A Union Forever -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Atlantic Triangle -- 1. Challenging the Union: American Repeal and U.S. Diplomacy -- 2. Ireland Is No Longer a Nation: The Irish Famine and American Diplomacy -- 3. Filibusters and Fenians: Contesting Neutrality -- 4. The Fenian Brotherhood, Naturalization, and Expatriation: Irish Americans and Anglo-American Comity -- 5. Toward Home Rule: From the Fenians to Parnell's Ascendancy -- 6. A Search for Order: The Decline of the Irish Question in American Diplomacy -- Epilogue: Rapprochement, Paris, and a Free State -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.