Description
Book SynopsisExplains 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
Trade Review‘This is a valuable study of the inner workings of the Irish Party in its twilight years. Mulvagh has presented the clearest picture yet of the complexity of its leadership structure, set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Ireland.’
Colin W. Reid, University of Sheffield, Parliaments, Estates and Representation, September 2018
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. The constitutional context
2. Towards the age of the tetrarchs
3. Leadership in a Liberal era, 1906-9
4. Dragging Ireland into the spotlight, pulling Ulster from the morass, 1910-14
5. Estrangements and realignments: leadership in wartime, 1914-16
6. Rising and falling: Easter 1916 to winter 1918
7. Obstruction or interrogation? The tactics of parliamentary questions
8. Unity in division: voting and whipping in the Irish party
Conclusion
