‘Jobbing with Tory and Liberal’: Irish Nationalists and the Politics of Patronage 1880–1914*

McConnel, James

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“…91 The question of patronage and Home Rule was a vexed one. 92 Carson claimed that patronage was 'the emblem of sovereignty for which Ireland are so enthusiastic', 93 while Lord MacDonnell had claimed that this was mostly of a 'petty and purely local character'. 94 William Moore argued it was 'naked and unashamed transaction', which would see the Post Office 'packed with all the promising recruits from the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Gaelic League and the United Ireland League'.…”

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The First Step to a Nation? The Irish Postal Service and the Home Rule Crisis

Fitzpatrick

2019

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This article examines the fate of the proposition in the original third Home Rule bill of 1912 to grant control of the Post Office to the Irish government and the implications this had on debates about the future government of Ireland. It places this within the broader context of calls made by Irish Nationalists for control of the Post Office, disagreements between the Gaelic League and the Post Office, and the choice of the GPO as a rebel target in 1916. A reading of the debates at a parliamentary and popular level reveals wider concerns about the nature of the Home Rule settlement, threats to imperial authority, status, security and financial interests and Ulster. It discusses how national identity and aspirations for sovereignty were expressed through control over this symbolic, vital organ of the state. A study of the Post Office reveals much about communications, questions of patronage and employment and how the state in the nineteenth century became more engaged in people's lives. The fate of the Post Office in Ireland reflected the country's fate. That the Home Rule act of 1914 was suspended during the course of the war and never came into operation opened up possibilities for alternative action. Irish Nationalists understood the importance of institutions for the building of national character. As a space of power, the GPO in Dublin was a physical expression of the British state in Ireland. Its choice as a rebel target in 1916 was a key assertion of identity, power and nation.

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The First Step to a Nation? The Irish Postal Service and the Home Rule Crisis

Fitzpatrick

2019

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Civil society in search of a state: Dublin 1898–1922

2017

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ABSTRACT:A municipal boundary dispute between Dublin's nationalist city council and its independent unionist suburbs in the early twentieth century was symptomatic of a much deeper disagreement over national identity within the United Kingdom. Considering urban councils as the link between the state and local civil society (or subscriber democracy), and using theories proposed by Graeme Morton, R.J. Morris and Norton E. Long, along with illustrative contrasts from municipal behaviour in Edinburgh, this article examines these relationships in Edwardian Dublin. It argues that the modernization of Irish municipal government in 1898 empowered Dublin in unforeseen ways. By amplifying existing divergent identities, and providing a platform for the nascent Irish state, municipal government reforms contributed significantly to the break-up of the UK in 1922.

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‘This is a sovereign assembly’: popular sovereignty, parliament and the people in the Irish Free State

McCarthy,

O’Donoghue

2024

Irish Political Studies

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‘Jobbing with Tory and Liberal’: Irish Nationalists and the Politics of Patronage 1880–1914*

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

The First Step to a Nation? The Irish Postal Service and the Home Rule Crisis

The First Step to a Nation? The Irish Postal Service and the Home Rule Crisis

Civil society in search of a state: Dublin 1898–1922

‘This is a sovereign assembly’: popular sovereignty, parliament and the people in the Irish Free State

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