Format:
1 online resource (xix, 401 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780826421173
Content:
From the mid-1860s to 1914 the Irish problem was frequently the prime issue in British politics. Quantitatively it absorbed more time and energy than any other question. There was little about Ireland which was not aired at length in the press, in Parliament and at the dinner tables of the British political elite. Fenianism obsessed British minds at the beginning of the period while at the end it seemed all too possible that Irish home rule would spark off the largest civil disruption in the British Isles since the seventeenth century. Throughout the late Victorian and Edwardian eras Ireland never drifted far from political consciousness. The importance of the Irish question in modern British history is undeniable. It remains a staple of schools and university history syllabuses. For many William Gladstone's long career, most of which had little connection with Ireland, was bound up with his mission to pacify the Emerald Isle. Charles Stewart Parnell, the Protestant nationalist who guided an essentially Catholic movement so triumphantly, has inspired the best in poetry and the worst of Hollywood. The Irish problem, understandably, has continued to excite interest and passion beyond any other issue of the time. Its ramifications are with us even today. Failure to resolve the Irish problem by 1914 left a bitter legacy and was a major factor in giving birth to the contemporary Northern Ireland violence. That the Irish question played so considerable a part in later nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain is at initial glance very curious. Ireland was a small, relatively poor backwater on the fringe of the British Isles and western Europe. It possessed few significant resources and had little intrinsic importance. Scotland and Wales, lands of infinitely more value to Britain, attracted little concern by comparison though both had grievances
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Symbols of Irish Nationalism -- 2 Patriotism as Pastime: The Appeal of Fenianism in the Mid-1860s -- 3 Ireland and the Ballot Act of 1872 -- 4 The Political Mobilization of Irish Farmers -- 5 The Tenants' Movement to Capture the Irish Poor Law Boards, 1877-1886 -- 6 The I.R.B. and the Beginnings of the Gaelic Athletic Association -- 7 Cardinal Cullen and the National Association of Ireland -- 8 The Early Response of the Irish Catholic Clergy to the Co-operative Movement -- 9 The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1898-1918 -- 10 J.S. Mill and the Irish Question: Reform, and the Integrity of the Empire, 1865-1870 -- 11 The Irish Question and Liberal Politics, 1886-1894 -- 12 Home Rule, Radicalism, and the Liberal Party, 1886-1895 -- 13 Rosebery and Ireland, 1898-1903: A Reappraisal -- 14 Irish Home-Rule Finance: A Neglected Dimension of the Irish Question, 1910-1914 -- 15 Lord Randolph Churchill and Home Rule -- 16 The Ulster Liberal Unionists and Local Government Reform, 1885-1898 -- 17 The Southern Irish Unionists, the Irish Question, and British Politics, 1906-1914 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780907628859
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780907628859
Language:
English
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