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Author Townend, Paul A

Title The Road to Home Rule : Anti-imperialism and the Irish National Movement
Published Chicago : University of Wisconsin Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (333 pages)
Series History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora
History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora
Contents List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Prologue: Trouble on the Land ; Introduction ; 1. Irish Imperial Politics and the Imperial Dimensions of Buttite Home Rule ; 2. The Afghan and Zulu Wars and Anti-imperial Irish Politics ; 3. Between the Wars
4. Liberal Imperialism: The Irish and the Boer War 5. Anti-imperialism and the Social Movement of Nationalism: The Egyptian Crisis in Ireland ; 6. The Changing Politics of Irish Anti-imperialism
7. Anti-imperialism and the Limits of Political Possibility: Nationalists, Home Rule, and the Sudan Epilogue: The First Home Rule Bill and the Contours of Irish Anti-imperialism ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
Summary In the 1870s and 1880s, as the United Kingdom avidly built its empire in Asia and Africa, its rampant expansionism came under the scrutiny of its first and oldest colony, Ireland. Some Irish considered themselves loyal subjects and proud participants in the imperial enterprise, but others drew sharp analogies between the crown's ongoing conquests of distant lands and its centuries-old oppression of their homeland. The Irish were aware of how the British army had brutally suppressed Afghans, Egyptians, Zulus, and Boers-and how returning troops were then redeployed to quash dissent in Ireland. In Irish eyes, misrule by British officials and absentee landlords mirrored imperial oppression across the globe. Paul Townend shows that a growing critique of British imperialism shaped a rapidly evolving Irish political consciousness and was a crucial factor giving momentum to the Home Rule and Land League campaigns. Examining newspaper accounts, the rich political cartoons of the era, and the rhetoric and actions of Irish nationalists, he argues that anti-imperialism was a far more important factor in the formation of the independence movement than has been previously recognized in historical scholarship
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-304) and index
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Subject Anti-imperialist movements -- Ireland
Nationalism -- Ireland
Home rule -- Ireland.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Anti-imperialist movements
Home rule
Nationalism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Ireland -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068040
Ireland -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068017
Subject Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780299310738
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