By Brian Igoe
By Brian Igoe
The Ashbourne Act had been quite successful. It was renewed in 1888, and a further £5 million (around $680 million today) was added to the funds available for loans. The Local Government (Ireland) Act followed in 1898. It established a detailed and comprehensive system of local councils. County level services had previously been administered by Grand Juries, dominated by large landowners. This Act broke the remaining power of the aristocratic Ascendancy in the poorer parts of Ireland, because it passed these services to new, directly elected, county councils. It was much more significant than its title suggests. This was the greatest breakthrough for the restoration of civil liberties in Ireland since the arrival of Strongbow, over half a millennium before, had started the process of destroying them.
Meanwhile, back in Westport County Mayo, …….
That is the first paragraph of the chapter, which then goes on to look at January 1898, William O'Brien, United Irish League ('UIL'), 'No Rent Manifesto', Sophie Raffalovich, Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Land Conference, Lord Dunraven, Wyndham Act (1903), Land Purchase (Ireland) Act (1903), the Birrell Act, Landlordism, the IRB, Countess Markievicz, Bulmer Hobson, Na Fianna Éireann (Warriors of Ireland), the Irish Language, 1908, Sinn Féin, Arthur Griffith, and Inghinidhe na hÉireann ('Daughters of Ireland'), Maud Gonne, John McBride, Seán MacBride, the Irish Volunteers, Seán McDermott and Dennis McCullough, Tom Clarke, The Ulster Unionist Party, 1910, Sir Edward Carson, Orange Order, Ulster Volunteers, 'Popery', Sir James Craig, Belfast City Hall, Lord Londonderry, German arms, UIL, John Redmond, Wexford, Herbert Asquith's Liberals, the House of Lords, Home Rule Bill, Parliament Act of 1911, First World War, Home Rule Act, 1913, Irish Volunteers, Ulster Volunteers, the National Volunteers, 10th (Irish) Division, 16th (Irish) Division, British Army, hard line Sinn Féiners, Erskine Childers and Sir Roger Casement, Howth, German support, shipment of arms, O'Donovan Rossa, Patrick Pearse, the Easter Rising, Boland's Bakery, Éamon de Valera, General Post Office RIC barracks at Ashbourne.
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