Week 5

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Topics

Home Rule
Nationalism in Late Nineteenth Century Ireland

Tutorial Focus Question

'It will be obvious that Gladstonian Home Rule fell a long way short of full self-government and, to a later age, what it withheld seems almost more significant that what it bestowed' (F.S.L. Lyons).  In light of Lyons's assessment, why did the Home Rule campaign prove so controversial in the late nineteenth century? 

Essential Reading

• Jackson, Alvin, Home Rule: An Irish History, 1800-2000 (London, 2003), PP. 38-66.

Recommended Readings

• Boyce, D. George, Nationalism in Ireland (3rd.ed., London, 1995) [short loan].
• ---. Nineteenth Century Ireland: the search for stability (Dublin, 1990).
• Bull, Philip, Land, politics and nationalism: a study of the Irish land question (Dublin, 1996).
• Comerford, R. V. 'The land war and the politics of distress', in William E. Vaughan (ed.), A New History of Ireland Volume VI: Ireland Under the Union II, 1870-1921(Oxford, 1996), pp. 26-52 [short loan].
• Foster, Roy, Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (New York, 1989) [short loan].
• Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998 (Oxford, 1999) [short loan].
• Loughlin, James, Ulster Unionism and British national identity since 1885 (London, 1995) [short loan].
• MacLaughlin, Jim, Reimagining the Nation State: the contested terrains of nation-building (London, 2001) [short loan].
• O'Day, Alan, Irish Home Rule, 1867-1921 (Manchester, 1998) [short loan].
• ---. Alan, Parnell and the first Home Rule episode (Dublin, 1986).
• O'Farrell, Patrick, Ireland's English Question (London, 1971).
• Winstanley, Michael, Gladstone and the Liberal Party (London, 1990) [electronic resource]. 

Lecture Outlines

Home Rule

1. Physical force and its aftermath
2. Isaac Butt and Home Rule
3. Parnellite Politics
4. Fall of Parnell

Fenian Brotherhood
John O'Mahony
Irish Republican Brotherhood
James Stephens
Thomas Kelly
Chester Castle
Clerkenwell
Manchester martyrs
Isaac Butt's Home Government Association (1870)
Joseph Biggar
Charles Stewart Parnell
Women's Land League Anna and Fanny Parnell
Margaret Ward, Unmanageable revolutionaries (London, 1995)
W. E. Gladstone
Kilmainham Treaty 

 



Nationalism in Late Nineteenth Century Ireland

1. Ireland, Nation and Nationalism
2. The Pursuit of Sovereignty
3. Imagined Communit(ies)?

Imagined Communities (London, 1991)
Second Home Rule Bill
John Redmond
John Dillon
William O'Brien
United Irish League
H. H. Asquith
David Lloyd George
1911 Parliament Act
Sinn Féin
Arthur Griffith
James Connolly
James Larkin
D. P. Moran
W. B. Yeats
Lady Gregory
J. M. Synge
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA)
Michael Cusack
Gaelic League
Douglas Hyde
Eoin MacNeill

The Question of Ulster

1. Foundations of Ulster Unionism
2. Mobilisation against Home Rule
3. A covenant signed in blood

Ruth Dudley Edwards, The Faithful Tribe
Alvin Jackson on Unionism
Jeremy Smith, The Tories and Ireland (Dublin, 2000)
Peep o'Day Boys
'Wilson's Orange Boys Society'
Battle of Garvagh
Dolly's Brae
Edward Saunderson
Randolph Churchill
Ulster Unionist Council
Edward Carson
William Craig
Craigavon
Bonar Law
Curragh Mutiny