Ireland, Radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, c.1870-1912

Andrew Newby

This book focuses on the leading figures in radical politics in Ireland and Scottish highlands and explores the links between them. It deals with topics that have been at the centre of recent discussions on the Highland land question, the politics of the Irish community in Scotland, and the development of the labour movement in Scotland. The author argues that the Irish activists in the Scottish Highlands and in urban Scotland should be seen as adherents to notions of social and economic reform, such as land nationalisation, and not as Irish nationalists or Home Rulers. This leads him to make radical reassessments of the contributions of individuals such as John Ferguson, Michael Davitt and Edward McHugh. Andrew Newby looks closely at the political activities and ambitions of the Crofter MPs showing them to be a widely influential but diverse group: he reveals, for example, the extensive links between Angus Sutherland, the most radical of the Highland MPs, and John Ferguson’s groupings of Irish political activists of urban Scotland. This is a balanced and vivid account of a turbulent period of modern Scottish history.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vii

Abbreviations
pp viii-viii

1 - Scotland, Ireland and the Land Question
pp 1-8

2 - ‘A Sort of Fenian Conclave in the Country’: The Development of a Highland Land Question
pp 9-27

3 - ‘Blessed are Those who Expect Little, for They Shall not be Disappointed’: Alleged and Actual Irish Involvement in the Development of the ‘Crofters’ War’, 1877–1880
pp 28-47

4 - ‘An Obscure Hall in East Nile Street’: Urban Radicalism and the ‘Crofters’ War’, 1881–1882
pp 48-84

5 - ‘The Active Propaganda of Socialist Agitation’: Strands of Land and Social Reform in Ireland and the Highlands
pp 85-116

6 - ‘A Scotch Parnellite Party’: Land, Home Rule and the Third Reform Act
pp 117-137

7 - ‘Two Tribes which Sprang from the Same Stock’: Celtic Solidarity and Political Realignment in the Highlands, 1886–1895
pp 138-169

8 - ‘The Highlands have Reaped what Michael Davitt has Sown’: Legislation and Agitation to the Great War
pp 170-188

9 - Conclusion
pp 189-196

Bibliography
pp 197-216

Index
pp 217-224

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