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HANDBOOK OF HOME RULE

BEING

ARTICLES ON THE IRISH QUESTION

BY

THE RIGHT HON. W.E. GLADSTONE, M.P.
THE RIGHT HON. JOHN MORLEY, M.P., LORD THRING
JAMES BRYCE, M.P., CANON MACCOLL
E.L. GODKIN, AND R. BARRY O'BRIEN

WITH PREFACE BY

THE RIGHT HON. EARL SPENCER, K.G.

EDITED BY

JAMES BRYCE, M.P.

SECOND EDITION

LONDON

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., I, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1887

EDITOR'S NOTE.

Of the articles contained in this volume, those by Mr.Gladstone, Mr. E.L. Godkin on "A Lawyer's Objectionsto Home Rule," and Mr. Barry O'Brien appearfor the first time. The others are reprinted from theContemporary Review, the Nineteenth Century, and theNew Princeton Review, to the proprietors and editors ofwhich periodicals respectively the thanks of the severalwriters and of the editor are tendered. In most of thesereprints some passages of transitory interest have beenomitted, and some few additions have been made.

The object of the writers has been to treat the difficultquestions connected with the Government of Ireland in adispassionate spirit; and the volume is offered to the publicin the hope that it may, at a time of warm controversy overpassing events, help to lead thoughtful men back to theconsideration of the principles which underlie those questions,and which it seeks to elucidate by calm discussionand by references to history.

October, 1887.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE.
BY THE RIGHT HON. EARL SPENCER, K.G.

AMERICAN HOME RULE.
BY E.L. GODKIN

HOW WE BECAME HOME RULERS.
BY JAMES BRYCE, M.P.

HOME RULE AND IMPERIAL UNITY.
BY LORD THRING

THE IRISH GOVERNMENT BILL AND THE IRISH LAND BILL.
BY LORD THRING

THE "UNIONIST" POSITION.
BY CANON MACCOLL

A LAWYER'S OBJECTIONS TO HOME RULE.
BY E.L. GODKIN

THE "UNIONIST" CASE FOR HOME RULE.
BY R. BARRY O'BRIEN

IRELAND'S ALTERNATIVES.
BY LORD THRING