Gladstone and Ireland: Politics, Religion and Nationality in the Victorian Age

by D. G. Boyce (Editor), A. O'Day (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230221949
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/24/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	307
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

DAVID BEBBINGTON Professor of History, University of Stirling, UK NEIL FLEMING Research Fellow, John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland GRAHAM GOODLAD Director of Studies, St. John's College, Southsea, UK JOHN-PAUL MCCARTHY DPhil Doctoral Student, Exeter College Oxford, UK MARTIN MAGUIRE Lecturer, Department of Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland PATRICK MAUME Researcher for the Dictionary of Irish Biography, Belfast, UK ALAN MEGAHEY Political and Religious Historian of Britain, Ireland, and Zimbabwe. Currently a Parish Priest in Lincolnshire, UK TIM MOORE formerly Legislative Correspondent, US Senate, and Academic Director, the Washington International Studies Council IAN SHEEHY English and History Teacher, Southend High School for Boys, UK

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.G.Boyce History and Pluralism: Gladstone and the Maynooth Grant Controversy; J.-P.McCarthy Gladstone, Church and State; A.Megahey Anti-Gladstonianism and the pre-1886 Liberal Secession; T.Moore British Liberals and the Irish Home Rule Crisis: the Dynamics of Division; G.Goodlad 'A deplorable narrative': Gladstone, R. Barry O'Brien and the 'historical argument' for Home Rule, 1880-90; I.Sheehy Gladstone and the Ulster Question; N.C.Fleming Burke in Belfast: Thomas MacKnight, Gladstone, and Liberal Unionism; P.Maume The Union of Hearts Depicted: Gladstone, Home Rule and United Ireland; D.W.Bebbington Gladstone and the Irish Civil Service; M.Maguire Accommodation, Conciliation and Cooperation: a Gladstonian Legacy; N.C.Fleming & A.O'Day Gladstone and the Four Nations; D.G.Boyce