The Ulster Party: Irish Unionists in the House of Commons, 1884-1911

ISBN-13: 9780198222880 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 376 str.

Jr. Alvin Jackson

Opis

This study of the Irish Unionists in the Edwardian House of Commons fills an important gap in Anglo-Irish parliamentary history in the generation before 1914, and is the first to examine the role of parliamentary action within the political strategies of Edwardian loyalism. In reconstructing a forgotten parliamentary party, Jackson sheds new light on the development of organized Unionism in Ireland, and on the bond between loyalism and British Conservatism.

Recenzje

'he is not really subverting old truths but significantly adding to them, by setting the Ulstermen's contribution to the debate over the Union in a rich provincial (and interprovincial) context ... For giving us this insider's view he deserves our thanks.' P.R. Ghosh, St Anne's College, Oxford, History, No. 246, February 1991

Spis treści

Abbreviations; Introduction: A parliamentary policy; Party, class, and nation; Unionist roots; Parliamentary origins, 1884-1886: Introduction; Irish and British tories, 1884-1885; Organization in Ireland, 1885; Organization in the Commons, January 1886; Summary; The Parliamentary Party, 1885-1910: Party personnel; Contribution to debate; Party discipline; The Ulster Party, the tories, and a policyfor Ireland, 1885-1906: Introduction; Home rule; Land; Irish local government; Catholic higher education; Summary; MP and Constituency, 1885-1911: Introduction; Local funding; External influence and selection; Lord Arthur Hill and selection, 1880-1908; Internal threats, 1885-1910; The Ulster Unionist council; Summary; Ulster Members and Wyndham, 1900-1904: Introduction; Ulster MPs, Wyndham, and MacDonnell, 1900-1904; The Loyalist case against Wyndham; Fightin devolution; Russell and the Ulsterunionists; The 'Young Men' of a Loyalist 'Radical Right'; Walter Long and the Ulsterman, 1905; Summary; The Emergence of Ulster Unionist Militancy, 1905-1911; The McNeill Hypothesis; Tory patrons and Ulster Unionism, 1906-1911; Missionaries in England, 1906-1910; Isolation and Armaments, 1910-1911; Summary; Conclusion