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Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain (Hardcover)
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This book is a salutary reminder that the realities of British
politics before 1914 were more complex and rather different from
the 'whiggish' stereotypes about New Liberalism, and the rise of
Labour and class politics which have dominated our understanding of
late Edwardian Britain. Jackson's groundbreaking research shows
that from the start of the Third Home Rule Bill crisis, there was
in Britain considerable popular interest in the Irish issue, and
that the Curragh army mutiny of 1914 was not an isolated incident,
but part of a wider popular movement. A well-orchestrated campaign
of agitation led by Unionist leaders Sir Edward Carson and Andrew
Bonar Law had so exploited patriotic and sectarian resentment at
the prospect of Irish Home Rule that by 1914 the United Kingdom was
on the verge of civil war. Jackson locates this movement at the end
of a 'long nineteenth century', where communal and confessional
identities were still as powerful as class, and where native
hostility to Catholicism and Irish migration still prevailed. This
work shows that the rhetoric and street-theatre of Carsonism had as
much resonance in Britain as 'Protestant Ulster', where enormous
crowds turned out to protest against Home Rule throughout Great
Britain (and not just in the sectarian cauldrons of Liverpool and
Glasgow). For Jackson, the study of these massive demonstrations
becomes a way of capturing the opinions of those rendered voiceless
by history, and shows how the Ulster question allowed Conservative
politicians to bridge the gap between elites and masses, and elicit
a degree of popular enthusiasm unmatched in the years before the
Great War.
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