March 5 The Irish Question

I. Celtic revival [Heyck, Ch 3]

II. The Irish Question

A. land + home rule
Landlord and Tenant Act (1870)

Isaac Butt (1813-1879)

Irish National Land League / land war

Charles Stuart Parnell (1846-1891)

B. Gladstone's mission

second ministry (1880-1885)
-coercion + conciliation
-Land Act of 1881
-conversion

1886 election

attitudes and stereotypes [link]

the Home Rule vote
-Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914)
-Liberal Unionists

C. Missed opportunities
the end of Parnell

1892 Home Rule bill (Gladstone's fourth ministry, 1892-94)

Unionist governments Salisbury (1895-1902) and Balfour (1902-05)
-further land legislation