Ulster's opportunity

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Identifikator:: 1878634100

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-276030

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Ulster's opportunity

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Unwin

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 35 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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[ 13 ] ber, 1873, the restoration of an Irish Parliament became for the first time a question of practical politics. At a meeting of the Dublin Corporation in 1843, Isaac Butt, then a brilliant young barrister, was the spokesman of the Unionist minority opposed to Alderman Danijel O’Connell’s motion in favour of Repeal. It was said that O'Connell, at the con- clusion of the debate, prophesied that. Butt would yet be the leader of the National Party in Ireland. However that may be, a careful perusal of Butt’s long and elaborate speech against Repeal reveals no single argument against the alternative policy of Home Rule. He objected, as Macaulay had objected, to O'Connell shirking the details of his policy of Repeal. He pointed out that there never was a constitution in Ireland which gave to an English king responsible Irish advisers, and he significantly concluded :—¢ If Alderman O'Connell calied for an Irish Cabinet as well as an Irish Parliament, it would be a very different question.” O’Connell himself, a little later, seems to have arrived at the same conclusion. When Sturge Brown, a well-known English politician, suggested a Federal solution of the Irish difficulty, the suggestion was favourably received by O'Connell. “The Irish,” he wrote, ‘“ desire a Parliament to regulate all the local affairs of Ireland; in matters wholly relating to England they do not desire to interfere.” Again, in December, 1844, he wrote :—“I will own that since I have come to contemplate the specific differences, such as they are, between simple Repeal and Federalism, I do at present feel a preference for Federalism, as tending more to the utility of Ireland and the maintenance of her connection, than Repeal.” The great Home Rule Conference in the Rotunda in 1873, under the presidency of Isaac Butt, followed

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