The British Empire and Ireland
The Making of Irish Question
The British Empire in 1914
• British Empire – A Global
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Enterprise
White –Self Governed
Dominions: Canada
Australia, New Zealand
and South Africa
Colonial Possessions in
Asia and Africa
Ireland – A Crucial
Exception
The Complexity of Irish Relationship: The Meaning of
Britishness
• The imagined Community of
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Britain
Anglo-Irish Relationship in the
medieval Era
Colonization under Queen
Elizabeth I(1558-1603)
Stereotype of Irish as Papists and
Barbarians
The starvation Death of 30,000
Irish in 1582
Revolt of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of
Tyrone, 1594-1603
The Flight of elders in 1607
Distribution of Land to Scottish
Settlers
Glorious Revolution :
Consequence for Ireland
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James II (1685-1688) and the conflict with
the parliament
James’s Flight to Ireland
Penal Laws of 1693-1793
According to these laws the Catholic
majority in Ireland cannot :enter military
service
- hold public office
- practice law
- produce/print books, newspapers etc.
- own land
- be ministers
- be schoolmasters
- pass on land to their children without
dividing it.
Catholic Relief Acts of 1771,1778, 1793
Irish Parliament’s Rebellion in 1798
Union of Ireland and Britain in 1801 and
Catholic emancipation in 1829
Irish Famine, Eviction and
Emigration
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Bridget O'Donnell and Her Children,"
from The Illustrated London News,
1849
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Irish Land Question
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Chief
Secretary for Ireland,
105 members from Ireland with a
majority of them land lords
Absentee Land Lords from Anglo-Irish
Landed Aristocracy and Drain of Wealth
Middle Man System
between 1801 and 1845 there had been
114 commissions and 61 special
committees inquiring into the state of
Ireland
Small Plots and Dependence on Potatoes
Irish Famine 1845-50
Eviction of Peasants from Land
Emigration to England New World and
Australia
Home Rule league, Fenian
Revolutionary Movement and Easter
Uprising
• The Making of Home
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Rule League and the
Demand for Reforms
Fenian Revolutionary
Movement
Easter Uprising and
the attempt to severe
ties with Empire
The Coming of War
and Independence
Moral Consequence of
colonization of Ireland