Gladstone and the Irish Nation

J. L. Hammond

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780367111601
• eBook ISBN: 9780429655791
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Originally published in 1964, in this work of wisdom, originality, and power, the great Liberal scholar, J. L. Hammond, explores and expounds Gladstone's attempt to secure justice for Ireland against the rising tide of English Imperialist feeling. The origins of the Irish Church crisis of 1869, of the land agitations of the seventies and eighties, and of the Home Rule explosion of 1885-6 that disrupted the British party system, are traced back, by Hammond's mastery of the archives, to their historical causes. His imaginative sympathy accompanies Gladstone on the eight years of political suffering that followed the explosion, till at the age of eighty-four the Grand Old Man could finally retire.

In the new 1964 introduction to this reprint of the rare 1938 edition, this work is described as the most formidable and incisive piece of original research yet published on the history of England and Ireland in the second half of the nineteenth century.

INDEX

A

“A.E.”, 733.

Abercromby, General, 38.

Aberdeen, 117, 118, 119.

—, Lord, 35, 49, 70, 708.

Acland, Sir Thomas, 75, 76, 689.

Act of Union (Ireland), The, 2–5, 7; Ireland and England, after 8 et seq.; Ireland’s plight after, 23; Gladstone and repeal of, 157, 412; otherwise mentioned, 508, 596, 735.

Act of Union (Scotland), The, 2.

Acton, Lord; on Pitt, 3; on Gladstone as slow learner, 73; on Gladstone’s habit of mistaking silence for assent, 403; on Newman, 542; and Vatican Decrees (1870), 134, 136; on Gladstone’s Leeds speech (1881), 249 n.; on Gladstone’s Home Rule speech (1882), 254 n.; on Defeat of Gladstone’s Government on Budget (1885), 373; criticizes Gladstone’s lenience to the Church in history, 534, 535, 536, 543; Gladstone’s friendship with, 76, 171; letters from Gladstone, 348 n, 568, 632, 675.

Adair, 39.

Adderley, C. B. (see Norton, Lord).

Afghanistan, 162, 165, 428, 435.

Africa, 44, 76, 168, 208, 326, 626, 729.

—The Union of South, 456, 500.

Agram, 589.

Agrarian War and outrages, 38, 40, 45, 153, 154, 243, 244, 251. See also Plan of Campaign.

Agricultural Holdings Act, The English, 339.

Alabama Incident, The, 64, 111, 132.

Alexander the Great, 53, 541, 546.

—, Professor, 546, 707.

Alexandria, bombardment of, 326, 404.

Alsace-Lorraine, 64.

America, United States of; Irish emigrants to, 20, 112; Fenianism in, 46; Irish natives in, 65, 151; colonists in, 114; constitution of, 119; Irish revolution and, 148, 576; Davitt and, 153; Parnell visits, 154; railways in, 155; the Land League in, 192; the Declaration of Independence of, 537; Dillon and O’Brien’s protest to Parnell from, 659; change of temper on introduction of Home Rule Bill, 736; otherwise mentioned, 243, 251, 267, 284, 312, 501, 560, 592, 637, 652, 665, 677, 738.

American Civil War, The, 46.

— War of Independence, The, 3, 114.

Andaman Islands, The, 34.

Andrassy, Count, 159.

Annual Register, Th...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• NEW INTRODUCTION
• I. PITT’S LEGACY
• II. ENGLISH AND IRISH DISCONTENT. A COMPARISON
• III. THE CAUSES OF THE FAILURE OF ENGLISH GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND BEFORE 1870
• IV. THE EFFECT OF THE CRUELTY AND LAWLESSNESS OF IRELAND ON THE ENGLISH TEMPER
• V. GLADSTONE’S EUROPEAN SENSE
• VI. GLADSTONE’S IRISH RECORD BEFORE 1868 AND HIS CONVERSION
• VII. GLADSTONE’S FIRST GOVERNMENT
• VIII. GLADSTONE’S FIRST GOVERNMENT. ECLIPSE
• IX. AFTER 1874
• X. THE NEW IRISH PARTY
• XI. GLADSTONE’S SECOND GOVERNMENT, 1880. THE STRUGGLE FOR ORDER AND REFORM
• XII. THE IRISH EMERGENCY, 1880
• XIII. COERCION AND REFORM, 1881
• XIV. THE STRUGGLE OVER THE LAND ACT IN IRELAND, 1881
• XV. THE KILMAINHAM TREATY, 1882
• XVI. AFTER THE PHOENIX PARK MURDERS, 1882
• XVII. THE MAAMTRASNA MURDERS. THE FAILURE OF 1883
• XVIII. TWO LOST YEARS, 1883 AND 1884
• XIX. GLADSTONE, CHAMBERLAIN AND PARNELL
• XX. THE CARNARVON ADVENTURE
• XXI. GLADSTONE’S LEADERSHIP IN 1885
• XXII. GLADSTONE AND THE IRISH ISSUE, JULY, 1885—DECEMBER 1885
• XXIII. THE OFFER TO SALISBURY AND THE HAWARDEN KITE, DECEMBER, 1885
• XXIV. THE CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT
• XXV. THE LIBERAL SPLIT
• XXVI. THE FIRST HOME RULE BILL
• XXVII. GLADSTONE AND THE EDUCATED CLASSES
• XXVIII. THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN, 1887
• XXIX. THE PARNELL COMMISSION
• XXX. CATASTROPHE
• XXXI. GLADSTONE’S DILEMMA
• XXXII. THE BREAK WITH PARNELL
• XXXIII. THE LAST BATTLE
• XXXIV. GLADSTONE AND DEMOCRACY
• XXXV. CONCLUSION
• INDEX