Citizenship and Community Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Citizenship, liberty and community
- Part I Citizenship, populism and liberalism
- Part II Economic democracy and the ‘moral economy’ of free trade
- Part III Democracy, organicism and the challenge of nationalism
- 10 Land, religion and community: the Liberal Party in Ulster, 1868–1885
- 11 Nationalising the ideal: Labour and nationalism in Ireland, 1909–1923
- 12 Land, people and nation: historicist voices in the Highland land campaign, c. 1850–1883
- 13 The Welsh radical tradition and the ideal of a democratic popular culture
- Part IV Consciousness and society: the ‘peculiarities of the British’?
- Index
11 - Nationalising the ideal: Labour and nationalism in Ireland, 1909–1923
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Citizenship, liberty and community
- Part I Citizenship, populism and liberalism
- Part II Economic democracy and the ‘moral economy’ of free trade
- Part III Democracy, organicism and the challenge of nationalism
- 10 Land, religion and community: the Liberal Party in Ulster, 1868–1885
- 11 Nationalising the ideal: Labour and nationalism in Ireland, 1909–1923
- 12 Land, people and nation: historicist voices in the Highland land campaign, c. 1850–1883
- 13 The Welsh radical tradition and the ideal of a democratic popular culture
- Part IV Consciousness and society: the ‘peculiarities of the British’?
- Index
Summary
We have, therefore, in Ireland, three revolutionary movements – political, industrial and agrarian – actuated by one immediate common purpose – the establishment of Irish independence, although differing in their ultimate aims. Such divergences would probably manifest themselves in an independent Ireland in a disruption of society. But for the moment and from the standpoint of national and imperial safety, these revolutionary movements must be regarded as one.
Such was the conclusion drawn by an anonymous commentator in a pamphlet entitled Ireland and International Revolution, in 1921. The writer pointed out that Irish radicalism was coordinated through three groups: Sinn Féin, Revolutionary Labour, centred on the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC) and a ‘sporadic agrarian movement’. For the casual observer of the Irish scene, the confusion within the nature of Irish radicalism was great. In many cases the sporadic agrarian movement was coordinated by the labour movement and at other times by the republican movement, but often times it clashed with both. This chapter is concerned with conflict within Irish radicalism, which centred on the relations between Sinn Féin, which had come to steer the nationalist movement, and the Irish labour movement. It focuses on the struggle of Irish Labour to deal with the over-riding nationalist movement, whose radicalism was fast giving way to rise of a conservative nature.
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- Citizenship and CommunityLiberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865–1931, pp. 276 - 304Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996
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