Category: History - British

The New Irish Constitution: An Exposition and Some Arguments

I.—The Constitution: A Commentary. BY PROFESSOR J. H. MORGAN II.—Irish Administration Under Home Rule. BY LORD MACDONNELL OF SWINFORD III.—The Judicial Committee And The Interpretation Of The New Constitution. BY SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK IV.—Constitutional Limitations Upon The Po...

Chapters

1. Part I. The New Constitution

I.—The Constitution: A Commentary. BY PROFESSOR J. H. MORGAN II.—Irish Administration Under Home Rule. BY LORD MACDONNELL OF SWINFORD III.—The Judicial Committee And The Interpr...

2. Part II. A Historical Argument

VIII.—Irish Nationality. BY MRS. J. R. GREEN IX.—Ireland As A Dependency. BY PROFESSOR A. F. POLLARD X.—Ireland, 1782 And 1912 BY LORD FITZMAURICE XI.—Grattan’s Parliament. BY G...

3. Part III. Contemporary Views

XIV.—Irish Nationalism And Liberal Principle. BY PROFESSOR L. T. HOBHOUSE XV.—The Imperial Parliament (I) The State Of Parliamentary Business. BY CECIL HARMSWORTH, M.P. (II) The...

4. PART I. THE NEW CONSTITUTION

“Home Rule is at bottom Federalism,” we are told(1) by the most distinguished jurist among its opponents. It is urged against it that Federal Governments are almost invariably w...

5. Part I. The Fair Rent Acts and the Land Purchase Acts.(121)

The occupiers of Irish agricultural holdings are of two classes—those whose farms are economic, and those whose farms are uneconomic. By an economic holding is meant one of suff...

6. Part II. The Statutes Relating to the Relief of Congestion in Ireland.

Most of the earlier Statutes which have been summarised in the first part of this chapter deal with the rights and obligations of Irish Tenants without any attempt at Economic d...

7. Part III. Statutes Relating to the Provision of Allotments of Land and

(Act of 1883—Act of 1885—Act of 1886—Act of 1891—Act of 1892—Act of 1896—Act of 1903—Part IV. of the Irish Land Act, 1903—Act of 1906)

8. Part IV. Compulsory Registration of Land in Ireland.

In the year 1865 a Record of Title Act was passed for Ireland. Its operation was confined to lands sold through the Landed Estates Court. About 680 titles were recorded under it...

9. PART II. A HISTORICAL ARGUMENT

“Sinister information,” reported a Governor of Ireland under Henry VIII., “hath been of more hindrance to the reformation of Ireland than all the rebels and Irishry within the r...

10. PART III. CONTEMPORARY VIEWS

All through the nineteenth century the cause of subject nationalities was a constant stimulus to British Liberalism. Successive generations hoped and feared, wept and rejoiced w...

11. Chapter III.

43 The English judges, even when favourable to the claims of the early Irish Parliament, insisted on this limitation. _Cf._ the Case of the Merchants of Waterford; Year Book, Ri...

12. Chapter I. of this work.—EDITORIAL NOTE.

75 A similar provision appears in the new Bill, but the character of the Executive Committee is much more explicitly defined. _See_ Clause IV.; _also_ Chapter I. of this work.—E...