THE CASE OF IRISH PROTESTANTS IN RELATION TO HOME RULE STATED BY ONE OF THEM

Anonymous

Published by William McGee, 18 Nassau St. (C.W. Gibbs, Printer), Dublin, Ireland, 1886

12mo., 7.3 in. x 5 in., pp. 84. Gray blue boards with black copy of title page, framed with horizontal lines, to front. Rubbing to extremities; light soiling to boards. Corners nudged. Spine slightly shaken. Previous owners' name ("James L. ???") to front pastedown (partially scratched out) and front free endpaper(J.J. (?) Hopkirk from M.C.V. (?). Occasional pencil bracketing, and two instances of underlining, one in pencil, the other in read, which reads: ".keep the word of promise to our ear and break it to our hope'?.'It is beyond the wit of man to devise restraints which can prevent a people from following their own ways, and carrying out their fixed intentions. All such attempts are vain; and to give the name of safeguards or guarantees to illusory provisions is to deceive.'" The text goes on (not underlined) to say: "The Irish are not afraid of immediate open violence. They have arms in their hands, and their lives art least are under the protection of England." Quoted on the cover and title page: "I think it is not very unreasonable to suppose and beleive that what the Irish people have done before they will do again." - Lord Hartington, at Rossendale. From the pre-amble: "The author has only to add that he is an Ulster Radical, born and educated in the Northern Province, and that he is come of that old Presbyterian stock which has contributed so greatly to the prosperity and stability of the British Empire." From "Business and Political Turmoil, Ireland Versus Scotland before 1900 (2023): "After 1874, the Irish economy and its agriculture sector, in particular was buffeted by falling prices, poor harvest, and European protectionism. This agricultural crisis was a catalyst for a period of mass emigration and of agrarian unrest known as the "Land War," which took place from 1879 to 1881. Under the charismatic leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell, the grievances of the Land War were then fused with the cause of self-determination, transforming Home Rule into a popular movement. Combined with an extension of the franchise in 1884, from 224,000 voters in Ireland to 738,000, this created an electoral coalition that would soon be felt in Westminster. "Before 1884 the prospect of Home Rule had been, as one Irish Nationalist later recalled, no more than "a vague, shadowy kind of form on the horizon." This changed in the final days of the general election of November and December 1885, when it became known that Gladstone was in favor of Home Rule. This revelation caused "a sort of panic in certain classes, and a fall of securities," according to the viceroy of Ireland. Gladstone won the election and Irish equity prices fell substantially that month. When Gladstone introduced the First Home Rule Bill to the House of Commons in April 1886, it was met with riots on the streets of majority-Unionist Belfast as well as opposition from within Gladstone's Liberal Party. The bill split theLiberal Party and was defeated in the House of Commons in June 1886. (Printed by C.W. Gibbs, Dublin). Seller Inventory # 87289

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE CASE OF IRISH PROTESTANTS IN RELATION TO...
Publisher: William McGee, 18 Nassau St. (C.W. Gibbs, Printer), Dublin, Ireland
Publication Date: 1886
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good Plus
Edition: First Edition.