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Use this to answer questions on Gladstone

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Everyone knows Gladstone's first reaction on being told the news of the General Election result in 1868. Interrupted in his favourite task of tree felling at Hawarden, he turned to the messenger and announced in messianic tones: 'My mission is to pacify Ireland'. He then swung round and resumed his duties with the axe.

This preoccupation with Ireland was new. Gladstone's long career before enjoying the Premiership had not seen any particular interest or engagement with that troublesome island to the west. The occasions when he had recommended a policy gave no sign of his later understanding of Irish nationalism. In his priggish youth, as 'the rising hope of those stern and unbending Tories', he had defended the absolute position of the Anglican church in Ireland. Later, as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1850s, he had had no compunction about extending income tax to Ireland. He never visited the place, nor had he intervened in the occasional debates over Irish land.

What had forced his attention had been the Fenian rising of 1867 and subsequent terrorism on the British mainland in 1868. Clearly something had to be done. Gladstone's great strength throughout his life was the ability to seize upon a new subject, immerse himself in the technicalities through voracious reading, and then pronounce the solution with a dramatic bill. This process he now turned on Ireland.

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Everyone knows Gladstone's first reaction on being told the news of the General Election result in 1868. Interrupted in his favourite task of tree felling at Hawarden, he turned to the messenger and announced in messianic tones: 'My mission is to pacify Ireland'. He then swung round and resumed his duties with the axe.

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Fenians, Gladstone and Ireland 1868-1890 

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Fenians, Gladstone and Ireland 1868-1890 

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DUE 5th JUNE

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Introduction/Act of Union/ O'Connell & Great Famine 

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Introduction/Act of Union/ O'Connell & Great Famine 

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O'Connell and the Repeal Campaign Extract

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O'Connell and the Repeal Campaign Extract

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Young Ireland Lecture

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Week 8, Lecture 36 - The Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848

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The Great Famine events, reaction and impact

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The Great Famine events, reaction and impact

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'Whigs vs. Tories' Information hand-out 

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'Whigs vs. Tories' Information hand-out 

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Please print and keep in your content files

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The 37th part of the 'Ireland in Rebellion: 1782-1916' lecture series delivered by Professor Patrick Geoghegan, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin http://www.tcd.ie/

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Ulster Unionism and Nationalist Resistance Flipped Pack

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Ulster Unionism and Nationalist Resistance Flipped Pack

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To be Completed for Monday 19th September

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3. Nationalist response to Ulster Unionism 

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3. Nationalist response to Ulster Unionism 

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To be Completed for Monday 26th September