Guide to the United Ireland Scrapbook
Finding Aid Authors: Dakota Greenwich.
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Guide to the United Ireland Scrapbook 1884/1886
Special Collections & University Archives
Collection Title: United Ireland Scrapbook
Dates: 1884-1886
Identification: MS-0571
Physical Description: 1.00 linear ft
Language of Materials:
English
Repository:
Special Collections & University Archives
5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050
San Diego, CA, 92182-8050
URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua
Email: askscua@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-6791
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Ireland--History--19th century
Irish Parliamentary Party
Political cartoons
9999-183
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Ireland was officially merged with England in 1801 under the Act of Union 1800. The island was governed by the UK Parliament
in London through its Dublin Castle administration in Ireland. Despite this union, Ireland faced considerable economic difficulties
in the 19th century. Both liberal and conservative groups rose up in support of continued union with England and Home Rule.
Supporters of Home Rule included Isaac Butt, who established the new moderate nationalist movement called the Home Rule League,
as well as William Shaw and Charles Stewart Parnell, both of whome turned the moderate movement into the Irish Parliamentary
Party, which campaigned for the right of Ireland to govern herself as a region within the United Kingdom. William Ewait Gladstone
introduced the first Home Rule Bill in 1886, and its subsequent defeat was a primary cause of the Belfast Riots later that
same year. Various riots and violent incidences related to this political issue broke out throughout the 19th and early 20th
centuries.
The United Ireland Scrapbook consists of 1 scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and political cartoons dated from 1884
to 1886. The colored cartoons, which make up the majority of the scrapbook content, are relative to the political conflict
over the "Home Rule" movement, the Irish Parliamentary Party, the abolition of landlordism, and increasing tensions between
Unionists, who supported continuing the union between Ireland and Great Britain, and Home Rule supporters, who supported an
Irish legislation with responsibility for domestic affairs. There is one newspaper clipping from 1969 included and describes
Patrick Pearse's execution address to be auctioned in London; Patrick Pearse was a political activist and one of the leaders
of the Easter Rising in 1916. Key politicians are depicted in the political cartoons, including Gladstone, Cobain, and Parnell,
and many other politicians are depicted in handrawn portraits.
Item 1
United Ireland Scrapbook 1884-1886; 1969