This book attempts to delve into the connection between imagination and politics, and examines the many expectations and fears engendered by the Irish home rule debate. More specifically, it assesses the ways politicians, artists and writers in Ireland, Britain and its empire imagined how self-government would work in Ireland after the restitution of an Irish parliament. What did home rulers want? What were British supporters of Irish self-government willing to offer? What did home rule mean not only to those who advocated it but also to those who opposed it?
Author(s): Pauline Collombier
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 368
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Images
Introduction
‘Home Rule’ Imagined by Its Champions
Re-imagining the Link Between Ireland, Britain and the Empire: Irish Home Rule or the Opening Up a Wide Array of Constitutional Possibilities
Looking Beyond the Restoration of a Dublin Parliament and the Mere Redefinition of Union and Empire
The Future of Ireland in the Pro-home Rule Press
The Press as a Mirror of the Home Rulers’ Discourse
Nationalist Cartoons: An Additional Tool to Sustain Hope in the Cause
Landlordism and Orangeism as the Home Ruler’s Nightmares
Irish Self-Government Further Imagined: Pro-home Rule Fiction
Staging Fictitious Parliaments and Vindicating the Choice of Constitutionalism
Defending Self-Government as Compatible with the Union and the Empire
Framing Home Rule as Part of a Wider Issue: Home Rule and Democracy
Home Rule as an Anti-utopia: Advanced Nationalism and the Future of Ireland
The Late 1870S and Early 1880s
The 1910S
Home Rule as Dystopia: What Unionists Feared Would Happen Under Irish Self-Rule
Political Fears
Socio-economic Fears
Religious Fears
Reaching Out to New Converts, Providing an Outlet for New Voices: The Use of Images and Fiction in the Debate on Ireland’s Future
Reaching Out to New Converts: Images and Fictions as Tools to Mobilise Greater Numbers
Home Rule Predictive Fiction as a Means for Women to Take Part in the Debate on Ireland’s Future
Notes
British Positivists and the Prospect of Home Rule
The End of Empire?
The Fate of Ireland
Notes
Michael Davitt, Utopianism and Home Rule
Observing Utopian Experiments in the Antipodes
The ‘Prophet of the Future Ireland’: Davitt’s Views in the 1880s and 1890s
A Prophet of the Future or a Commentator of His Own Time? ‘The Irish National Assembly (Session of 1910)’
Notes
William Morris and Irish Home Rule
A Political Support for Home Rule Sparked by a Long-Lasting Anti-Imperialism
Morris’s Hopes and Reservations About the Future of a Self-Governing Ireland
Irish Perceptions of Morris and His Views
Notes
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Manuscript Sources
Official Printed Sources
Newspapers and Periodicals
Ireland:
Rest of the UK:
Rest of the world:
Home Rule Fiction
In the 1870s:
In the 1880s:
In the 1890s:
After 1900 and Until 1914:
Contemporary Pamphlets and Works
Specific Articles in Periodicals
Secondary Sources
Online Resources
Index
