The conduct of the central government was often reactive rather than deliberate. While its lack of a coherent policy was not remarkable, given the period under consideration, the government's failure to develop such a policy was disastrous in dealing with the fundamental issue of Catholic emancipation. The final surrender of Peel and Wellington was bitter and the 1829 Catholic relief act contained insults to Irish Catholics. The nature of the act, coupled with continued Protestant ascendancy and landlordism, and Catholic mass poverty and insecurity, meant that Catholic emancipation was not a...
The conduct of the central government was often reactive rather than deliberate. While its lack of a coherent policy was not remarkable, given the per...
Brian Jenkins's impressive biography documents Henry Goulburn's long and successful political career during the first half of the nineteenth century. Rescuing Goulburn from unmerited obscurity, Jenkins reveals that he was at the centre of far-reaching political and economic developments during a turbulent period of British history.
Brian Jenkins's impressive biography documents Henry Goulburn's long and successful political career during the first half of the nineteenth century. ...
