Lord Randolph Churchill and Home Rule
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9983160 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roland Quinault (corresponding author), R E Quinault |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 84 |
| Pages | 377-403 |
| Publication date | 1979-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1214 • E-ISSN: 2056-4139 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021121400033836 |
| OpenAlex | W2500653621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
‘If we wish to maintain the Act of Union we must abide by the conditions of the Act of Union.’ Lord Randolph Churchill 1883 ‘It is rather in these old speeches that we find instruction than in anything said at the present day.’ Lord Randolph Churchill 1883 Controversy has always surrounded the Irish policy of Lord Randolph Churchill. In particular, he played an important part in opposing Gladstone’s home rule bill of 1886, when he ‘played the Orange card’. But despite this episode there has been much varied speculation about his real attitude towards home rule. Was he a sincere and consistent opponent of home rule, as his son and his friend, Rosebery, claimed, or was he, as Wilfred Blunt alleged, a secret sympathiser with home rule? Alternatively, did Churchill merely adopt an opportunist attitude towards home rule as Robert Rhodes James has implied? In their recent book, entitled The Governing Passion , A. B. Cooke and J. R. Vincent have produced a new and idiosyncratic interpretation of Churchill’s involvement with Ireland and home rule in the period 1885-6. The purpose of this enquiry is to re-examine these interpretations, especially Cooke and Vincent’s
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |