Neville, Conor
(2011)
Imperial precedents in the Home Rule
Debates, 1867-1914.
Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
The cause of Home Rule was the primary focus of mainstream Irish nationalism from the
mid-1870s until the Irish parliamentary party’s electoral collapse at the 1918 general
election. The Home Rule movement’s predecessor as the dominant force in Irish nationalism
was Daniel O’Connell’s repeal movement of the 1830s and 40s, which was the only prior
coherent, constitutional nationalist movement to impinge on House of Commons business in
a significant manner. During the 1850s and 1860s, constitutional nationalist agitation was
greatly muted, and the repeal tendency within Irish politics was generally subsumed within
the Liberal party. The Fenian movement, founded in 1865, which advocated total separation
from Britain, officially ignored and forbade constitutional methods. The Home Rule
movement, essentially inaugurated as the Home Government Association by Isaac Butt in
1870, emerged into Irish politics in this context.
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Thesis
(Masters)
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| Keywords: |
Home Rule;
1867-1914; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts & Humanities > History |
| Item ID: |
5218 |
| Depositing User: |
IR eTheses
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| Date Deposited: |
24 Jul 2014 10:50 |
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