Land, its ownership, its occupancy and the fate of the dispossessed has long been one of the most controversial issues in Irish society. Never was this truer than in the Land War period of the 1870s and 1880s. In this well-documented volume, Frank Thompson has provided a clear and refreshing analysis of the land question in Ulster. In political terms, it determined the path of Ulster politics at a critical juncture in Irish history to the extent that it was the central factor in first the rise, then the fall of the Ulster Liberal Party. This thorniest of issues provided the dynamic of the growth of the Liberal Party in Ulster so that, whereas Liberalism was in terminal decline in the other three provinces, there grew an almost irresistible tide of Liberal feeling in the North. However, the very success of the broader movement for land reform ultimately deprived the Liberal Party in Ulster of much of its political capital. Furthermore, the Parnellite campaign in the province from 1883 and Orange reaction to it increasingly divided Ulster along sectarian lines, to the detriment of the Liberal cause. By 1886 Home Rule had become the defining question it would remain until Partition. The Land Question, of course, remained important but it had become clear that the time when it could radically influence the shape of Ulster was past. Within a dramatically short period of coming to prominence, though the Ulster Liberal was not quite an extinct political species, Ulster Liberalism was well and truly a spent force.
This book focuses on the chaos that overtook England on the eve of the First World War.
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The prominent Liberal journalist, H. O. Arnold-Forster, adopted son of W. E. Forster, stood for the Party in Dewsbury in November 1888 and lost by over 2,000 votes in a Yorkshire that seemed to have become an impregnable Gladstonian ...
23. Kennedy, Henry, 94–5. 24. Frances Ruane, quoted in Tom Duddy 'Irish Art Criticism—A Provincialism of the Right?', in Sources in Irish Art. A Reader, Fintan Cullen (ed), (Cork, 2000), 92. 25. Duddy, 'Irish Art Criticism', 99. 26.
Northern Ireland: The First Years of the Troubles As well as seeking membership of the EEC, 1960s Irish foreign policy ... 64 See Kennedy, Division and Consensus and Stephen Kelly, Fianna Fáil, Partition and Northern Ireland, 1926–1971 ...
Andrew R. Holmes, The Shaping of Ulster Presbyterian Belief and Practice, 1770–1840 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). Andrew R. Holmes, 'Presbyterian Religion, Poetry and Politics in Ulster, c.
Despite the title of the last, the Liberal Unionist Party is dismissed in two pages, pp. 105–6. ... 3 F. Thompson, The End of Liberal Ulster: land agitation and land reform (Belfast, 2001); G. Walker, A History of the Ulster ...
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The threat was implied that, faced with a choice between an inadequate but secure imperial pension if they chose to retire immediately and an unsecured future salary from an Irish government, the entire body of civil servants would ...