Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Home Rule is expedient: - (a) It is not secession: King, the Irish Question, Chap. 30: - (1) It is analagous to the self governing colonies: Gladstone in N. A. Rev. XLII. 392-401 (Oct. 1892): - (2) It is analagous to the Federal system; - (b) a majority of Parliament favors it; McCarthy in N. A. Rev. XLIII, 293-306 (Sept. 1892); - (c). Ireland desires it; - (d) Imperial Parliament retains sufficient powers; Harrison in Fort. Rev. XXXIV. 319-323 (Sept. 1892) - (2) Discontend Ireland a military weakness; Morley in Fort. Rev. XXVI, 165 (July 1881); - (b) Irish minority in Parliament obstructive: - (g) Irish...
...position and honors flowed upon him, when the Lord Treasurer, who wanted the Blenheim victory celebrated, went to the author of the Italian letter. In 1709 he went to Ireland as Keeper of Records, but was too nervous and reticent to succeed as speaker in the Irish parliament...
...mock Parliament at Wellesley last Saturday the Home Rulers won the debate...
...which now seems about to approach a happy consummation. His movement even then was supported by the protestants and conservatives of Ireland. In the great meeting at Dublin they said that they wished no separation from England, but they would not have their domestic affairs regulated by an English parliament. The views propounded by the meeting rapidly spread. The extremists fell in with the movement, and had it been led with sternness then, things might have been far cifferent than at present. But zeal died out, disorder reigned, and the condition of the country was one of insurrection...
...Irish peasant had not the slightest title to the land he lived on, or the things he possessed. It was a condition which parliament was unable or indifferent to refute. Attempts to remedy his condition applied only to the future rent, not to existing arrears...