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GLADSTONE AND IRISH REFORM 1868-82 (1)
- Gladstones mission
was to ' pacify
Ireland'
- Fenianism 1868
- members of secret
revolutionary organisation
(IRB)
- committed to the forcible
overthrow of British power and the
establishment of independent Irish
republic
- transferred their activities to the English mainland know as ' the
fenian outrages'
- September 1867 at Manchester , when in carrying out
the successful rescue of two leading fenians from a
prison van , a policemen was killed
- second incident occurred in London in December where
terrorists blew up part of the wall of Clerwell prison , loss of a
dozen civilian lives
- Outrages treated with horror and anger in England
- 3 Fenians who were arrested and executed for the murder of
the policemen became known and the 'Manchester Martyrs'
- First time the England felt first hand experience of the problems with in Ireland
, usually colonies rebelling only affect the country in question never the British
homeland
- Made the British public
more accepting of reform
- seriously put Irish politics
on the agenda
- Gladstones Irish Reforms
- Irish church act 1869
- Ireland population of
5.75 million . 4.5 million
were catholic
- disestablishment : link
between stater and church of
Ireland was broken
- First Irish land act 1870
- gave more economic security to tenants
- The Irish universities bill
1873
- Failed: would allow catholics
to join the ruling class and
elite
- Parnell and Land League
- land war
- land league fought for
Three F'S : FREE SALE, FAIR
RENT AND FIXED TENURE
- Parnells motives ??
- he did agree with immediate
demand for thee F's but was a landlord himself
- motives primarily political
- support for a popular agrarian movement would
encourage constitutional nationalism he believed and
give leverage to home rulers in westminster
- agitation would force Brit gov to land reform and
end conflict between tenants and landlords allowing
landlords to join home rule cause too
- Parnell came from a wealthy
protestant family ( part of the
ascendancy)
- NEW DEPARTURE
- fusion of radicalism , revolutionary and
constitutional nationalism - fenian alliance , agreed to stop killing
- tactics of land league
- applied a boycott against farmers and those
who tried to take over evicted land
- 'Putting him in moral Coventry , by isolating him from the
rest of his kind as if he was a leper of old '
- was genuinely peaceful but violence did erupt on occasion
- police troops used
regularly to guard
evictions
- 1881 Coercion Act : temporarily suspended Habeas Corpus..
could be detained without trail , more freedom for the
police
- SECOND LAND ACT 1881
- Introduced the 3 F's
- hard for Parnell to accept , had to
maintain support from militant and
moderates
- kilmainham treaty 1882
- government agreed to release parnell from
prison and relax the coercion act and
further reform the land act
- parnell agree to use his influence to end violence and support the
land act - also agreed to consider coalition with liberals if need be
- The Phoenix Park murders :new accord between
Gladstone and Parnell was shaken by the brutal
murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and T.H. Burke , government officials
- causes by ' the invincibles' a terrorist splinter group of the fenians