“Was Home Rule then to be a means, not of fulfilling a distinct Irish destiny, but of strengthening a wider sense of Britishness, making Ireland at last a contented province of Britain?” (Boyce 1986:236)

“The answer, of course, was ‘No’, even if John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party wrestled with those contradictions in a more thoroughgoing, sophisticated and independent-minded way than later national historiography ever gave them credit for doing. The view has gained ground in more recent historical reassessment that by 1914 they had within their grasp at least as much as was to be achieved, after so much bloodshed, in 1921. Certainly they had mapped out the achievable far more clearly than had the architects of the 1916 Rising, or those who inspired the losing side in the Civil War.”

Stephen Howe Ireland and Empire Oxford. p.41.

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