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Hace 4 días · Though the stated political demand of nationalist Ireland before 1914 was for Home Rule, no-one sang maudlin songs around the hearth pining for provincial autonomy within the United Kingdom. The unofficial anthem of the Home Rule movement was ‘God Save Ireland’, a memorialisation of Fenian separatists hanged by British justice.
Hace 5 días · In 1920, Westminster passed the Government of Ireland Act, which granted home rule to Ireland. However, it created not one but two parliaments, one in Dublin for Southern Ireland and a Northern Ireland parliament based in Belfast. It also asserted Britain’s sovereignty over Ireland. The War of Independence continued.
Hace 5 días · Paul Bew, Ideology and the Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism, 1912–1916 (Oxford, 1994); Fitzpatrick, Politics and Irish Life, 1913–1921; and Alan O'Day, Irish Home Rule, 1867–1921 (Manchester, 1998).
Hace 2 días · Introduction The Republic of Ireland has two official languages. Article 8.2 of Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Irish Constitution, describes Irish as “the national language” and the “first official language”. Article 8.2 says: “The English language is recognised as a second official language”. The constitutional position of both languages is reinforced in the political arena through ...
Hace 5 días · The period was also marked by heightened nationalist politics in the form of Fenianism in the 1860s and Home Rule in the 1870s. By the 1880s Irish society had become dominated by the Irish Land War, and an on-going political and agrarian agitation between Irish nationalist tenant farmers and their representatives and unionist landlords.
Hace 20 horas · George Bernard Shaw. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works ...
Hace 5 días · The American Revolution greatly influenced Irish politics, not least because it removed government troops from Ireland. Protestant Irish volunteer corps, spontaneously formed to defend the country against possible French attack, exerted pressure for reform.
