This chapter considers the double form of nineteenth-century Irish realism through attention to Anna Maria Hall’s The Whiteboy: A Story of Ireland (1845). Focusing on the movement between sympathy and outrage and two mediating figures for Irish social difference – Scottish Highlanders and Indigenous peoples from North America – I demonstrate how the novel exposes the limits of liberal consensus. It works to delimit the proper space of politics and demarcate proper political subjects by teaching Irish people to work toward a shared future rather than agitate in the present. But, in the process, it points toward other political horizons where politics need not be put in its place and justice rather than liberal inclusion – which necessarily depends upon exclusion – prevails.