Title:
Gladstone and Ireland : politics, religion and nationality in the Victorian age
Author:
Boyce, David George, 1942-
ISBN:
9780230221949
Publication Information:
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description:
x, 307 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
History and pluralism : Gladstone and the Maynooth grant controversy / John-Paul McCarthy -- Gladstone, church, and state / Alan Megahey -- Anti-Gladstonianism and the pre-1886 Liberal secession / Timothy Moore -- British Liberals and the Irish home rule crisis : the dynamics of division / Graham Goodlad -- "A deplorable narrative" : Gladstone, R. Barry O'Brien, and the "historical argument" for home rule, 1880-90 / Ian Sheehy -- Gladstone and the Ulster Question / N.C. Fleming -- Burke in Belfast : Thomas MacKnight, Gladstone, and Liberal Unionism / Patrick Maume -- The Union of Hearts depicted : Gladstone, home rule, and United Ireland / D.W. Bebbington -- Gladstone and the Irish Civil Service / Martin Maguire -- Accommodation, conciliation, and cooperation : a Gladstonian legacy / N.C. Fleming and Alan O'Day -- Gladstone and the Four Nations / D. George Boyce.
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Summary
Summary
Explains how William Gladstone responded to the 'Irish Question', and in so doing changed the British and Irish political landscape. Religion, land, self-government and nationalism became subjects of intensive political debate, raising issues about the constitution and national identity of the whole United Kingdom.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| List of illustrations | p. viii |
| Notes on contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction: Tracts for the times? The enduring appeal of Gladstone and Ireland | p. 1 |
| 1 History and pluralism: Gladstone and the Maynooth grant controversy | p. 15 |
| 2 Gladstone, church and state | p. 41 |
| 3 Anti-Gladstonianism and the pre-1886 Liberal secession | p. 65 |
| 4 British Liberals and the Irish Home Rule crisis: the dynamics of division | p. 86 |
| 5 'A deplorable narrative': Gladstone, R. Barry O'Brien and the 'historical argument' for Home Rule, 1880-90 | p. 110 |
| 6 Gladstone and the Ulster question | p. 140 |
| 7 Burke in Belfast: Thomas MacKnight, Gladstone and Liberal Unionism | p. 162 |
| 8 The union of hearts depicted: Gladstone, Home Rule, and United Ireland | p. 186 |
| 9 Gladstone and the Irish civil service | p. 208 |
| 10 Accommodation, conciliation and cooperation: a Gladstonian legacy | p. 233 |
| 11 Gladstone and the four nations | p. 256 |
| Index | p. 289 |