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The Home Rule Bill, passed by the British parliament in 1912, was due, when it came into effect in 1914, to give Ireland some control over her own affairs for the first time since the Act of Union in 1800. However, this was postponed when the First World War broke out and by the time the war had ended the political landscape in Ireland had changed irrevocably.
The nationalist movement split into the followers of John Redmond who chose to fight for the British in the war in the hope that their loyalty would be rewarded and those on the other side who felt that this was just a delaying tactic and that 'England's difficulty [was] Ireland's opportunity'.
Meanwhile the Unionists were violently opposed to any form of Irish self government, believing that 'Home rule is Rome rule' and this led to the signing of the Ulster Covenant and the establishment of the Ulster Volunteers.
The respected historians who have contributed to this book examine the reaction to the Home Rule Bill across many shades of political opinion across these islands and give a fascinating analysis of what might have been if external events had not overtaken local ones.
Contents
Contents
Cork studies in the Irish revolution 5
Acknowledgements 6
List of Contributors 7
Introduction 13
Opening Address: The 1912 Home Rule bill: then and now 15
Dominick Chilcott
1 When histories collide: the third Home Rule bill for Ireland 22
Thomas Bartlett
2 The politics of comparison: the racialisation of Home Rule in
British science, politics and print, 1886-1923 36
Matthew Schownir
3 Literary provocateur: revival, revolt and the demise of the Irish
Review, 1911-14 63
Kurt Bullock
4 Liberal public discourse and the third Home Rule bill 81
James Doherty
5 Ulster 'will not fight': T. P. O'Connor and the third Home Rule
bill crisis, 1912-14 102
Erica S. Doherty
6 Myopia or utopia? The discourse of Irish nationalist MPs and the
Ulster question during the parliamentary debates of 1912-14 118
Pauline Collombier-Lakeman
7 The All-for-Ireland League and the Home Rule debate, 1910-14 138
John O'Donovan
8 The Murnaghan memos: Catholic concerns with the third
Home Rule bill, 1912 164
Conor Mulvagh
9 'Resigned to take the bill with its defects': the Catholic Church
and the third Home Rule bill 185
Daithí Ó Corráin
10 'Neither Whigs, Tories, nor party politicians'? The Church of
Ireland and the Ulster crisis, 1910-14 210
Andrew Scholes
11 Irish Presbyterians and the Ulster Covenant 241
Laurence Kirkpatrick
12 'Grotesque proceedings'? Localised responses to the Home Rule
question in Ulster 276
Jonathan Bardon
13 The Ulster Volunteer Force, 1913-14 304
Timothy Bowman
14 The persistence of Liberal Unionism in Irish politics, 1886-1912 333
Ian Cawood
15 The role of the leaders: Asquith, Churchill, Balfour, Bonar Law,
Carson and Redmond 353
Martin Mansergh
16 The centenary commemoration of the third Home Rule crisis 373
Gabriel Doherty
17 The third Home Rule bill in British history 412
Eugenio Biagini
Index 443
