Dublin Castle, Whitehall, and the formation of Irish policy, 1879–92

Warren, Allen

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“…However it has been argued that the Carnarvon experiment in legislative terms was simply the Spencer programme relaunched. 74 Carnarvon's threat to give up the lord lieutenancy if home rule was not granted isolated him further from his colleagues, especially Salisbury. At his last cabinet, where the Irish paragraph in the queen's speech was settled, containing a clause against home rule and against the National League, Carnarvon warned that this would be seen as a declaration of war.…”

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Select Document: Lord Carnarvon’s memoirs relating to his lord lieutenancy, c. 29 March to 7 April 1886

Gordon¹

2016

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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This article examines the memoirs written by Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, fourth earl of Carnarvon, concerning his period as lord lieutenant of Ireland between June 1885 and January 1886, in the brief Salisbury administration. Carnarvon inherited many of the problems of his Liberal predecessor, fifth Earl Spencer, telling Salisbury ‘the day of reckoning in this case will come very rapidly if any unwise promises are made or implied’. Nevertheless he was sympathetic to reform in many different fields, notably home rule, land reform, education and religion. A sensitive politician, Carnarvon penned this memorandum shortly after leaving office in an attempt to uphold his reputation. The memorandum gives a number of insights into Carnarvon’s manoeuvrings in cabinet, and demonstrates the workings of high politics in the late-nineteenth century. It was never published.

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