The Church of Ireland and the Third Home Rule Bill
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The third Home Rule crisis dominated Irish politics between 1910 and 1918. General elections bookend a period colored by hugely dramatic and controversial events that still resonate today, such as Ulster Day, the Larne Gun-running, the Easter Rising, the Somme offensive, and the Conscription Crisis. The Church of Ireland, as the largest Protestant church in Ireland, played a key role in many of these events. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the Church in this period. It explores in detail the complex relationship between the Church of Ireland and Irish Unionism at an officia...
The third Home Rule crisis dominated Irish politics between 1910 and 1918. General elections bookend a period colored by hugely dramatic and controversial events that still resonate today, such as Ulster Day, the Larne Gun-running, the Easter Rising, the Somme offensive, and the Conscription Crisis. The Church of Ireland, as the largest Protestant church in Ireland, played a key role in many of these events. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the Church in this period. It explores in detail the complex relationship between the Church of Ireland and Irish Unionism at an official and popular level, the Church's leading role in Ulster resistance to Home Rule, her reaction to the outbreak of the Great War and the Easter Rising, and the difficulties posed to the Church by the possibility of partition. Andrew Scholes demonstrates that the Church of Ireland played a more prominent role in Ulster resistance than previous historians have allowed. He suggests that the Church of
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