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| Titre : | La trahison des clercs : British intellectuals and the first home-rule crisis (1982) |
| Auteurs : | Tom DUNNE, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 23 n 90 November 1982) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 134-173 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Note de contenu : | In the early months of 1882 two of the writers (Goldwin Smith and James Fitzjames Stephen) who were to be prominent four years later in opposing Gladstone’s first Irish home-rule bill made similar complaints to correspondents about the state of British public opinion. Each had a particular reason to be preoccupied about Ireland. They also reflected a general concern among politicians and intellectuals which historians have tended to ignore or underestimate — a belief that trends and events in Ireland and the British response to them had serious implications for the future of Britain itself. The denial of any importance to ideological differences in political crises is a characteristic of the so-called ‘high politics’ school of historiography, and constitutes perhaps its most serious defect. It is reinforced in the case of the Irish home-rule crisis by the view that, as it was undoubtedly true that few among the political élite cared about Ireland as such, they were equally indifferent to the issues it raised. However, not alone can it be argued that there were important ideological dimensions to most political crises in late nineteenth-century Britain, there is considerable evidence to show that this was particularly true of those involving Irish questions, and of home rule above all. |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
