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History Hub presents historical documents from the archives with analysis from historians.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.
Proposal to abolish Seanad is an ‘awesome admission of failure’
The proposal to abolish the Seanad, without even considering its reform will, if successful, inevitably result in the concentration of governance in the hands of fewer, without any chance of meaningful oversight and scrutiny of what they are doing.
