Gladstone and Ireland

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Tracts for the times? The enduring appeal of Gladstone and Ireland

   • D. George Boyce

   Pages 1-14

3. History and pluralism: Gladstone and the Maynooth grant controversy

   • John-Paul McCarthy

   Pages 15-40

4. Gladstone, church and state

   • Alan Megahey

   Pages 41-64

5. Anti-Gladstonianism and the pre-1886 Liberal secession

   • Timothy Moore

   Pages 65-85

6. British Liberals and the Irish Home Rule crisis: the dynamics of division

   • Graham Goodlad

   Pages 86-109

7. ‘A deplorable narrative’: Gladstone, R. Barry O’Brien and the ‘historical argument’ for Home Rule, 1880–90

   • Ian Sheehy

   Pages 110-139

8. Gladstone and the Ulster question

   • N. C. Fleming

   Pages 140-161

9. Burke in Belfast: Thomas MacKnight, Gladstone and Liberal Unionism

   • Patrick Maume

   Pages 162-185

10. The union of hearts depicted: Gladstone, Home Rule, and United Ireland

    • D. W. Bebbington

    Pages 186-207

11. Gladstone and the Irish civil service

    • Martin Maguire

    Pages 208-232

12. Accommodation, conciliation and cooperation: a Gladstonian legacy

    • N. C. Fleming, Alan O’Day

    Pages 233-255

13. Gladstone and the four nations

    • D. George Boyce

    Pages 256-288

14. Back Matter

    Pages 289-307

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Explains how William Gladstone responded to the 'Irish Question', 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.

• church
• constitution
• dynamics
• history
• history of literature
• identity
• Ireland
• kingdom
• landscape
• nation
• pluralism
• politics
• religion
• subject
• Victorian era

• Department of Politics and International Relations, Swansea University, UK

  D. George Boyce

• Greyfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK

  Alan O’Day

• St Bede’s Hall, Oxford, UK

  Alan O’Day

DAVID BEBBINGTON Professor of History, University of Stirling, UK NEIL FLEMING Research Fellow, John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland GRAHAM GOODLAD Director of Studies, St. John's College, Southsea, UK JOHN-PAUL MCCARTHY DPhil Doctoral Student, Exeter College Oxford, UK MARTIN MAGUIRE Lecturer, Department of Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland PATRICK MAUME Researcher for the Dictionary of Irish Biography, Belfast, UK ALAN MEGAHEY Political and Religious Historian of Britain, Ireland, and Zimbabwe. Currently a Parish Priest in Lincolnshire, UK TIM MOORE formerly Legislative Correspondent, US Senate, and Academic Director, the Washington International Studies Council IAN SHEEHY English and History Teacher, Southend High School for Boys, UK

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