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The Home Rule movement was a movement that campaigned for self-government (or "home rule") for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was the dominant political movement of Irish nationalism from 1870 to the end of World War I. Isaac Butt founded the Home Government Association in 1870.
MacDonagh, Michael: The Home Rule Movement, Talbot Press, Dublin (1920) Kee, Robert: The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism (2000 edition, first published 1972), ISBN 0-14-029165-2. Hennessey, Thomas: Dividing Ireland: World War I and Partition (1998), ISBN 0-415-17420-1.
Government of Ireland Bill 1893 (as reported by the House of Commons) Archived 17 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine HC 1893–1894 (448) 3 323; Kee, Robert (2000) [1972]. The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism. Penguin Adult. ISBN 0-14-029165-2. Jackson, Alvin (2003). Home Rule: An Irish History 1800–2000. Phoenix. ISBN 0-7538-1767-5.
Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom from 1875 to 1891, Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882, and then of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891, who held the balance of power in the House of Commons during the Home Rule debates of 1885–1886.
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a vigorous campaign for Irish Home Rule. While legislation enabling Irish Home Rule was eventually passed, militant and armed opposition from Irish unionists, particularly in Ulster, opposed it. Proclamation was shelved for the duration following the outbreak of World War I.
The economic arguments for and against Home Rule were hotly debated. The case in favour was put by Erskine Childers' The Framework of Home Rule (1911) [22] and the arguments against by Arthur Samuels' Home Rule Finance (1912). [23] Both books assumed Home Rule for all of Ireland; by mid-1914 the situation had changed dramatically.
Whereas home rule meant a constitutional movement towards an Irish parliament under the ultimate sovereignty of Westminster, in much the same manner as Canada, New Zealand, or the much later Scottish devolution process, repeal meant the repeal of the 1801 Act of Union (if need be, by physical force) and the creation of an entirely independent ...
The Home Rule League (1873–1882), sometimes called the Home Rule Party, was an Irish political party which campaigned for home rule for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, until it was replaced by the Irish Parliamentary Party. [1] The Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain was a sister organisation in Great Britain.