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Reactions to Irish Nationalism, 1865-1914 (Hardcover)
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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 and
aspirations similar to those in Ireland. Moreover, neither the
industrial workers of Britain's cities or the agricultural classes
of the countryside were given the consideration devoted to the
humblest of Ireland's Catholic peasantry. Ireland's centrality is
explicable in three principle ways. First, there was a range of
outstanding Irish grievances which public opinion had been educated
to understand demanded attention if the Catholics of the country
were to consent freely to be part of a unified kingdom. Certain
issues, then, were ripe for legislation. Secondly, a movement
emerged which was able to galvanise the Catholic masses. It also
proved effective in keeping Ireland to the fore in British life
over an extended time.
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