Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
This groundbreaking volume sheds light on the complex realities of British politics prior to 1914, showing that from the start of the Third Home Rule Bill crisis, there was considerable popular interest in the Irish issue. Isolating this movement at the end of the long nineteenth century, where communal and confessional identities were just as powerful as class, and native hostility to Catholicism and Irish migration still prevailed, Daniel Jackson demonstrates the power of the enormous Home Rule protests in Britain. Through studying these massive demonstrations, the author captures the opinions of those made voiceless by history and explores how the Ulster question allowed Conservative politicians to gain popular enthusiasm and bridge the gap between elites and the masses.
Introduction. Ancient prejudice: popular politics, social geography and ‘no popery’ in Edwardian Britain
1. The lesson of Craigavon. Orange Ulster anticipates Nuremberg
2. ‘Liverpool, sister of Belfast’. Protestant Ulster’s Lancashire bridgehead
3.Echoes of Milothian. Sir Edward Carson’s first tour of Great Britain
4. ‘Stoutly and robustly Protestant’. The religious dimension of Ulster’s appeal
5. The transfiguration of Sir Edward Carson. Unionist demonstrations reach their high-water mark
6. Firing the heather. Rousing support for Ulster throughout Great Britain
Conclusion. Ulster, crowds and Britishness
History: British and Irish History
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