In 1844, a future British prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, defined the Irish question:
That dense population in extreme distress inhabited an island where there was an established church which was not their church; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom lived in distant capitals. Thus they had a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That was the Irish question.[1]
In the United Kingdom general election of 1868, a coalition of Liberals and Irish Nationalists formed based on the fact that a wrong was done to Ireland and that it must be corrected.[2] From the general election of 1868 to 1929, and most likely past the latter year, the Liberal Party's primary platform of reform was based on Irish reform.[2] During the first ministry of William Ewart Gladstone, a total of three "grievances" were made to him by the Irish: "religious, agrarian, and nationalist".[2] These were, but not limited to, the Roman Catholic faith being persecuted since the 16th century, the poverty wrought upon by legislation, such as Ireland's woollen industry, and English landlords, and "Poyning's Law", which held the Irish government's action subject to the acceptation of the government of England under King Henry VII.[3]
In 1886, with the introduction of the first Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons, the term the Anglo-Irish quarrel[4] gained favour and became more acceptable than the implied condescension of the Irish question.
The Irish question affected British politics in much the same way that the nationalities problem affected Austria-Hungary. Normal British domestic issues could not be adequately addressed because of the political divisions created by the oppression of Ireland. The Liberal Party split over Home Rule, with the unionist faction leaving to create the Liberal Unionist Party, ceding control to the Conservatives, thus hurting the cause of further social and political reform.
^Benjamin Disraeli (16 February 1844). "State of Ireland". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). United Kingdom: House of Commons. col. 1016.
^ abcHayes, Carlton J.H. (1929). A Political and Social History of Modern Europe. New York, USA: The Macmillian Company. p. 319.
^Hayes, Carlton J.H. Hayes (1929). A Political and Social History of Modern Europe. New York, USA: The Macmillan Company. pp. 320, 321, and 322.
^The Anglo-Irish Quarrel: A Plea for Peace, John O'Connor Power, London, 1886
^Toynbee, Polly (27 November 2017). "The Irish question may yet save Britain from Brexit | Polly Toynbee". The Guardian.
^"Brexit viewed from Brussels: The Irish question".
Further readingedit
Case, Holly. The Age of Questions (Princeton University Press, 2018) excerpt
January 01, 1970
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