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"Resigned to take the bill with its defects" : The Catholic Church and the third Home Rule bill

Ó Corráin, Daithí ORCID: 0000-0003-2254-6322 (2014) "Resigned to take the bill with its defects" : The Catholic Church and the third Home Rule bill. In: Doherty, Gabriel, (ed.) The Home Rule crisis 1912-14. Cork Studies in the Irish Revolution, 1 . Mercier Press, Cork, Ireland, pp. 185-209. ISBN 9781781172452

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Abstract

For the Irish Roman Catholic hierarchy the possibility of Irish self-government in 1912-14 presented both potential benefits and lurking dangers. Their responses to the third home rule bill and the deepening crisis of 1913 and 1914 were conditioned by two overarching factors. The first was their level of confidence in the leadership of the Irish Party. The second applied chiefly to the Ulster bishops: the prospect of exclusion from an Irish parliament imperilled their religious and educational interests. By the onset of the First World War, the spectre of partition had stretched their trust in the Irish Party and support for a Home Rule settlement to breaking point.

Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Irish home rule; partition; Irish revolution; Irish Catholic hierarchy; British and Irish relations
Subjects:Humanities > History
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of History and Geography
Publisher:Mercier Press
Copyright Information:© 2014 Mercier Press
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:22052
Deposited On:02 Oct 2017 12:51 by Daithí Ã� Corráin . Last Modified 20 Aug 2019 14:21

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