Britain and Ireland: From Home Rule to Independence

by Smith,Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780582301931
• ISBN10: 0582301939
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-11-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Jeremy Smith explores relations between Britain and Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with a story that still raises deep passions and bitter disagreements both among historians and within wider public opinion. This examination attempts to chart a more dispassionate course between the various contending positions and has enormous relevance to the unfolding events in both Northern Ireland and Britain as the united Kingdom moves towards a federal constitutional structure. Books in this Seminar Studies in History series bridge the gap between textbook and specialist survey and consists of a brief "Introduction" and/or "Background" to the subject, valuable in bringing the reader up-to-speed on the area being examined, followed by a substantial and authoritative section of "Analysis" focusing on the main themes and issues. There is a succinct "Assessment" of the subject, a generous selection of "Documents" and a detailed bibliography.Incorporates a large amount of research on Irish history during the last two decades and gives particular focus to the dramatic events between the Easter rising of 1916 and the intense negotiations surrounding the Treaty in the autumn of 1921.For those interested in the history between Ireland and Britain.

Author Biography

Jeremy Smith teaches history at Radley College, Abingdon.

Table of Contents

An introduction to the series	vii
Note on referencing system	viii
Publisher's Acknowledgements	ix
Author's Acknowledgements	x
PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND	1	(24)
Irish History and the Historians	1	(9)
The Nationalist Interpretation	1	(4)
The Rise of `Revisionism'	5	(5)
Ireland's Past, 1800-69	10	(15)
Binding Ireland, 1800-22	10	(2)
Threats to the Union, 1823-44	12	(4)
Whose Nation?	16	(3)
Famine and Fenians	19	(6)
PART TWO: ANALYSIS	25	(74)
Gladstone, Parnell and Home Rule, 1869-90	25	(18)
Gladstone, Butt and the Home Rule League, 1869-74	25	(4)
The Rise of Parnell, 1875-80	29	(2)
Gladstone's Second Ministry, 1880-85	31	(4)
The Struggle for Home Rule, 1885-86	35	(4)
A New Landscape, 1886-90	39	(4)
New Directions, 1890-1909	43	(16)
Fragmentation and the Survival of Constitutional Nationalism	43	(3)
Ireland under the Tories, 1887-1905	46	(2)
New Directions, 1890-1900	48	(5)
Promising Directions, 1900-05	53	(1)
Turning Points, 1905-09	54	(5)
Crisis in the Union, 1910-16	59	(17)
The Third Home Rule Bill and Revolt of Ulster, 1910-12	59	(6)
Radicalisation, 1913-14	65	(5)
War and the Rising, 1914-16	70	(6)
Revolution, 1916-21	76	(23)
`All changed, changed utterly', 1916-18	76	(6)
The General Election and Rise of a Counter-State, 1918-20	82	(4)
Anglo-Irish War, 1919-21	86	(3)
`A trick of English politicians': Home Rule for the North, 1919-21	89	(3)
British Policy in Ireland, 1919-21	92	(3)
The Treaty, 1921	95	(4)
PART THREE: ASSESSMENT	99	(5)
PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS	104	(26)
Chronology	130	(5)
Glossary	135	(5)
Bibliography	140	(16)
Index	156