Isaac Butt and the founding of the Home Rule movement

The man who paved the way for Parnell by awakening the moribund constitutional nationalist spirit. By Bruce Kelley On the evening of 19 May 1870, some of the most important political figures in Ireland assembled in the great room of Bilton’s Hotel, Dublin. It was a meeting unique in the history of Ireland and which ... Read more

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