Michael F J McDonnell

Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F J McDonnell

INTRODUCTION. 3. CHAPTER I THE EXECUTIVE IN IRELAND. 5. CHAPTER II THE FINANCIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 18. CHAPTER III THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF IRELAND. 29. CHAPTER IV THE LAND QUESTION. 41. CHAPTER V THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION. 68. CHAPTER VI THE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM. 90. CHAPTER VII UNIONISM IN IRELAND. 108. CHAPTER VIII IRELAND AND DEMOCRACY. 125. CHAPTER IX IRELAND AND GREAT BRITAIN. 137. CHAPTER X CONCLUSION. 158. NOTES. 166. ADDENDUM. 167. I heartily recommend this book, especially to Englishmen and Scotchmen, as a thoughtful, well-informed, and scholarly study of several of the more important features of the Irish question. It has always been my conviction that one of the chief causes of the difficulty of persuading the British people of the justice and expediency of conceding a full measure of National autonomy to Ireland was to be found in the deep and almost universal ignorance in Great Britain regarding Irish affairs present and past-an ignorance which has enabled every unscrupulous opponent of Irish demands to appeal with more or less success to inherited and anti-Irish prejudice as his chief bulwark against reform. John Redmond.