Stats & Misc Flashcards by Noémie Gmbl

evolution of the franchise

409,000 in 1831
1,360,000 in 1866
5,798,000 in 1886
over 8M by 1914

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Bagehot

The English Constitution (1867)

“afraid of the ignorant multitude”.

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the 3 conditions of a successful federal system

John Stuart Mill
Considerations in Representative Government (1861)

a sufficient amount of mutual sympathy
a dependence on each other concerning foreign relations
an equality between states

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coercion acts stats

between 1801 and 1908 : 76

Union Defense League

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Isaac Butt

1870 - 1879

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IPP pledge

1894

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Charles Parnell

1875 - 1891

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new departure of the IPP

distanciation from the Land League
re-structuration as a political structure
mobilization of the grassroots through the INL

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Canada Act

British North America Act

1867

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William Gladstone

1858 - 1894

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diff delegation / federalism

Delegation meant a delegation of power from an upper entity to a lower one.

Federalism meant having two separate ruling entities.

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Union

1801

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Home Government Association

1870

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second stage of the HGA

Home Rule League

1873

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parliamentary obstruction

1876-1878

1882 for Parnell

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Parnell leader of the HR party

May 1880

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suppression of the Irish Land League

1881

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first time nationalists had a majority of irish seats + balance of power

1885 GA

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Parnell murder accusations

1888-89

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Parnell nickname

the uncrowned king of Ireland

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Lord Salisbury

1885-1902

conservative

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“killing home rule with kindness”

Arthur Balfour (conservative)

1891

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rivalry inside of the anti-parnellites

Dillon / Healy

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John Redmond

1881 - 1918

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reunion of all the split irish nationalist factions

1900

introduction of an Irish Council Bill

1907 | limited tax-raising, local gov, education

David Lloyd George

1980 - 1922 | liberal

first scottish extra parliamentary association

Scottish Home Rule Association (SHRA) (1886)

successor of the SHRA

Young Scots Society associated to the Liberals 1900

YSS stats

3000 1903 | 10,000 1914

two phases of scottish HR

1889-1895 | 1910-1914

1st specifically Welsh bill

1881 The Welsh Sunday Closing Act

Young Wales

Cyrum Fydd 1886-1895

Welsh liberal branch

Welsh Parliamentary Party 1888

2nd Welsh HR movement

1910 Edward T. John

Gladstone annoucement

Hawarden Kite

Liberal - Irish alliance needed

1910 (274-272)

1st Labour party

Scottish Labour Party 1888

1st all-around Labour party

Labour Representative Committee 1900

Queen quote

John Dillon "monarch of another race" 1900 Queen visit

First Irish HR Bill

8 April 1886 bicameral Irish Parliament for the executive and the legislative for purely Irish affairs occasional representation in Westminster Defeated on 8 June 1886 341 vs. 311

Second Irish Home Rule Bill

13 february 1893 bicameral Irish Parliament suppression of the Lord Lieutenant after 6 years police force gradually taken over by Ireland representation in Westminster

Third Irish HR Bill

11 April 1912 ``` two Houses (Senate and House of Commons) Joint Exchequer Board for financial matters between Ireland and GB ``` passed 25 May 1914

Joseph Chamberlain

1876 - 1914

creation of a liberal Unionist faction

Liberal Committee for the Maintenance of the Union with Ireland 1886-1910

Liberal Unionists stats

78 seats in 1886 47 in 1892 71 in 1905 - coalition

Ulster agitation

Ulster Covenant 1912 500,000

three pahses of comparison with self-governing colonies

Conor Neville 1870 - 1885 : not that common, aside from Butt adn fhis followers 1885-1893 : focus on Irish parliament, so no analogies early 20th : enthusiasm caused by Redmond

Irish emigration to the US

1852-1911 3M

textes du parlement de Grattan

Constitution de 1782

famous Parnell quote

« personne n’a le droit de fixer des limites à la marche d’une nation » (“No man has the right to fix the boundaries to the march of a nation”) Cork 1885

loss of population 1841-1851

- 25% 1M emigration 1,5M death

Chamberlain quote

« Does anybody doubt […] that if Ireland were a thousand miles away from England she would have been long before this a self-governing Colony ? » 1886

Isaac Butt on the Empire

« The colonies belonged as much to Ireland as to England ». 1873

forces de l'Ulster Volunteer Force

77 000 fin 1913

première utilisation de Commonwealth of Nations

1884 Lord Rosebery

definition of the nation

a people who share a common traditional identity and culture and are identified with a traditional territory or region

Irish Universities Act

1908

premier élu indien à Westminster

Dadabhai Naoroji 1892

evolution of suffrage in Ireland

pre 1884 - 220 000 | post 1884 - 740 000

a take on imperialism

we seem, as it were, to have conquered and people half the world in a fit of absence of mind John Robert Seeley Whig, historian and political essayist

imperial federation

Imperial Federation League 1884

first unionist organization

Irish Loyal & Patriotic Union 1885

unionist party

Irish Unionist Party 1886

round table

Round Table Movement 1909

dominion status

Canada - 1867 Australia - 1901 New Zealand - 1907

great famine

45-49