The Home Rule Crisis (The Irish Revolution Lecture 2)
Lecture 2 of Prof Michael Laffan’s The Irish Revolution podcast series looks at the Home Rule Crisis.
The Home Rule Party (The Irish Revolution Lecture 1)
Lecture 1 of Prof Michael Laffan’s The Irish Revolution podcast series looks at the Home Rule Party.
From the Archives Material
History Hub presents historical documents from the archives with analysis from historians. You can view the original documents and come to your own conclusions.
We should not willingly walk into a constitutional no-man’s land
As part of our Seanad special series Brian Murphy argues that without crucial interventions in the Seanad, this country’s statute book would have been blemished by intolerant legislation, such as measures to prevent members of minority religions having their children educated outside the State; measures to weigh the electoral system blatantly in favour of the largest political party; and measures to ban opinion polls, with all of the consequent implications this would have for a free press.
One house is plenty: total abolition would enhance Irish democracy
If the Government was proposing a radical overhaul of our political system and starting with a blank canvass, would a second chamber be an essential component of a reformed system? I don’t believe they would and that is why I favour abolishing the Seanad altogether.
