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| Titre : | Irish Home-Rule finance: a neglected dimension of the Irish question, 1910-14 (1983) |
| Auteurs : | Patricia JALLAND, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 23 n 91 May 1983) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 233-253 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Note de contenu : | "Home rule", complained Augustine Birrell, "is the most unlucky cause mortal man was ever associated with. Its path is strewn with ghosts and skeletons - wine, women and money. Now it is money... Sentiment is easily kept alive, from one generation to another; it costs nothing but a harp and a song. But cash - where is that to come from?" The problem of finance proved to be an insurmountable obstacle to any compromise over Irish home rule at the abortive Irish Convention of 1917–18. By contrast, the struggle over the third home-rule bill from 1912 to 1914 was dominated by the question of Ulster and not finance. The bill was ultimately wrecked by the opposition of the Ulster protestants to any home-rule bill for a united Ireland. Home-rule finance has been overlooked by most historians because it seemed less important and no doubt also because it was immensely complicated. But the problem of finance was a very real difficulty which still confronted politicians even if the objections of the Ulster protestants could be overcome. More important, the complex relationship between Ireland and Britain cannot be fully understood unless the financial dimension is taken into account. |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
