James Doherty, Irish Liberty, British Democracy: The Third Irish Home Rule Crisis, 1909-1914

Abstract

The decade of centenaries celebrated in Ireland since 2012 has led to the publication of many new scholarly works re-examining the Home Rule crisis of 1912-1914, the Irish Parliamentary Party and the figure of John Redmond. James Doherty’s Irish Liberty, British Democracy is part of this still ongoing effort to shed new light on Irish political history and Anglo-Irish relations. The book goes back on the period which opened with the constitutional crisis triggered by the House of Lords’ rejec...