List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Sharman Crawford Family Tree; Introduction; 1. William Sharman and the politics of Volunteering, 1731-1803; William Sharman of Lisburn and Moira; The Volunteers and Colonel Sharman; The Dungannon conventions and parliamentary reform; Belfast politics and the French Revolution; The shock of 1798; 2. The making of an Ulster radical, William Sharman Crawford, 1780-1832; Youth and formation; Marriage and inheritance; Political initiation: the Down election of 1830; Down again: the election of 1831; The Belfast election of 1832; Sharman Crawford's radicalism; 3. O'Connellism, repeal and the national question, 1832-41; Approaching repeal, 1833-4; Dundalk politics, 1834-6; An Irish poor law, 1835-8; Opening the feud with O'Connell, 1836-7; Expulsion from Dundalk, 1837; 'Precursors' and 'Crawfordites', 1838-40; The Ulster Constitutional Association, 1840-1; 4. Chartism, federalism and Rochdale politics, 1837-52; The People's Charter; Rochdale politics, 1838-41; Universal suffrage, 1841-2; Petitions and obstruction, 1842-4; Federalism and the Irish question, 1843-8; Rochdale politics, 1845-52; 5. Landlordism, agrarian reform and Irish famine, 1827-50; Agrarian practice and theory; The development of the tenant-right bill, 1835-7; A Defence of the Small Farmers of Ireland, 1837-45; Response to the Famine, 1845-9; Depopulation Not Necessary, 1849-50; 6. The emergence of the Tenant League, 1846-50; The origins of agrarian politics, 1846-7; The 1847 elections, Holy Cross and after; Defeated revolutions, 1848-9; Forming the 'League of North and South', 1849-50; 7. The 'League of North and South', 1850-61; Tensions and compromises: the Tenant League, 1850-1; The 1852 session; 'A battle like Waterloo': the County Down election of 1852; Disintegration and division, 1852-5; The end of tenant right? 1855-61; 8.

Family, reform and religion, 1844-61; The Sharman Crawfords of Crawfordsburn; Empire, armies and reform; Religion and the conversion to Unitarianism; Death and commemoration; 9. Legacy and succession: the Sharman Crawfords after 1861; The shade of Sharman Crawford and Irish land reform, 1861-70; James Sharman Crawford and Co. Down politics, 1861-85; Mabel Sharman Crawford and the rights of women, 1852-1912; The end of Crawfordsburn radicalism, 1891-1934; Conclusion; Bibliography.