Gladstone and Ireland Politics, Religion and Nationality in the Victorian Age

Explains how William Gladstone responded to the #x18;Irish Question#x19;, and in so doing changed the British and Irish political landscape. Religion, land, self-government and nationalism became subjects of intensive political debate, raising issues about the constitution and national identity of the whole United Kingdom.

D. George Boyce is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Swansea University, UK. Among his publications are: Nationalism in Ireland; Decolonisation and the British Empire, 1775-1997; Nineteenth Century Ireland: The Search for Stability; The Ulster Crisis, 1885-1921 (edited with Alan O'Day). Alan O'Day was formerly a Fellow of Greyfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and is currently a Fellow of St Bede's Hall, Oxford, UK. He has authored and edited more than thirty-five books, including five previously published co-edited volumes with D. George Boyce.

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Notes on Contributors
Introduction; D.G.Boyce
History and Pluralism: Gladstone and the Maynooth Grant Controversy; J.-P.McCarthy
Gladstone, Church and State; A.Megahey
Anti-Gladstonianism and the pre-1886 Liberal Secession; T.Moore
British Liberals and the Irish Home Rule Crisis: the Dynamics of Division; G.Goodlad
’A deplorable narrative’: Gladstone, R. Barry O’Brien and the ‘historical argument’ for Home Rule, 1880-90; I.Sheehy
Gladstone and the Ulster Question; N.C.Fleming
Burke in Belfast: Thomas MacKnight, Gladstone, and Liberal Unionism; P.Maume
The Union of Hearts Depicted: Gladstone, Home Rule and United Ireland; D.W.Bebbington
Gladstone and the Irish Civil Service; M.Maguire
Accommodation, Conciliation and Cooperation: a Gladstonian Legacy; N.C.Fleming & A.O’Day
Gladstone and the Four Nations; D.G.Boyce