Beschreibung:
Conor Mulvagh is Lecturer in Irish History at University College Dublin
Explains how the leadership of the IPP operated, taking the concepts of oligarchy and collegiate governance and applying them to the Home Rule case more comprehensively than ever before
Introduction1. The constitutional context2. Towards the age of the tetrarchs3. Leadership in a Liberal era, 1906-94. Dragging Ireland into the spotlight, pulling Ulster from the morass, 1910-145. Estrangements and realignments: leadership in wartime, 1914-166. Rising and falling: Easter 1916 to winter 19187. Obstruction or interrogation? The tactics of parliamentary questions8. Unity in division: voting and whipping in the Irish partyConclusion