Dynasty Secured
Edmond Sexten Pery retired as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons in 1785 after...
Politics and Government
News and historical stories concerning Irish and Limerick politics between 1900 and 2000, including elections, political parties, local government, public administration, Home Rule, nationalism, unionism, republicanism, parliamentary affairs, civic leadership and major political campaigns.
Georgian Vision
Edmond Sexten Pery emerged as one of the most accomplished Irish parliamentarians and urban improvers...
Civic Inheritance
Edmond Pery successfully asserted a remarkable inherited privilege in 1677 when he claimed two votes...
Civic Defiance
Edmond Sexten inherited his family’s extensive Limerick property around 1594 and became one of the...
Pery Foundations
The Pery family’s rise in Limerick began not with the Georgian streets that later carried...
League Endorsed
The United Irish League’s campaign for nationalist unity received an important endorsement from parliamentary representatives...
Rivals Reconcile
Parnellite and anti-Parnellite representatives appeared together at Dublin’s Mansion House on 17 January in the...
Reunion Advances
Negotiations to reunite Ireland’s divided nationalist parliamentarians advanced formally during the Mansion House conference held...
Nationalist Reunion
Representatives of Ireland’s divided nationalist factions assembled in the Oak Room of Dublin’s Mansion House...
Battalion Arrives
The 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment reached the Cape aboard the troopship Gascon...
Rural Unrest
Agrarian agitation has become especially influential across Connacht and parts of Munster, where tenant farmers,...
Purchase Delayed
Tenant purchase continues under the existing Irish Land Acts, allowing some farmers to replace rent...
Tenants Restored
Evicted tenants remain at the centre of Ireland’s land agitation, with nationalist representatives demanding that...
Boycott Pressure
Boycotting and organised public pressure are being employed in some Irish districts against landlords, graziers...
Land Grabbers
The hostile term “land grabber” continues to be directed against tenants who enter farms from...
Holdings Enlarged
Campaigners are demanding that uneconomic smallholdings be enlarged through the redistribution of extensive grazing land....
Grazing Challenged
The United Irish League is expanding its campaign against large grazing farms and the concentration...
Land Dominates
The land question remains the dominant economic and social issue across rural Ireland, shaping political...
Networks Endure
The establishment of Cumann na mBan has revealed how strongly the women’s nationalist networks created...
Women Protest
Women have assumed visible roles in the nationalist opposition surrounding Queen Victoria’s arrival in Dublin,...
Women Participate
Inghinidhe na hÉireann has declared that women must take an active part in Ireland’s political...
Independence Demanded
Inghinidhe na hÉireann has declared that the restoration of an Irish legislature under Home Rule...
Women Organise
The establishment of Inghinidhe na hÉireann has provided women with a distinct and independent place...
Daughters Founded
Inghinidhe na hÉireann, translated as the Daughters of Ireland, has been established in Dublin under...
Hidden Discontent
Advanced nationalists have rejected claims that Queen Victoria’s public reception demonstrates widespread Irish loyalty, arguing...
Loyal Ireland
Unionist opinion has interpreted the enthusiastic public welcome given to Queen Victoria as convincing evidence...
Divided Allegiance
Queen Victoria’s final visit has intensified argument across Ireland over loyalty, national identity and the...
Nationalist Defiance
Maud Gonne and other advanced nationalists have organised determined opposition to Queen Victoria’s visit, rejecting...
Pageantry Challenged
Nationalist newspapers have criticised Queen Victoria’s visit as an elaborate imperial spectacle staged while poverty,...
Nationalist Resistance
Nationalist-controlled authorities and public representatives in several districts have resisted demands that they participate fully...
Loyal Addresses
Loyal addresses have been presented to Queen Victoria by municipal representatives and public institutions during...
Military Review
Queen Victoria has reviewed troops drawn from the Dublin garrison and the Curragh Camp during...
Unionist Display
Dublin Castle and unionist organisations have used Queen Victoria’s arrival to affirm Ireland’s constitutional place...
Royal Dublin
Queen Victoria arrived in Ireland today for what will become the final Irish visit of...
Royal Farewell
Queen Victoria arrived at Kingstown today for what would prove to be her final visit...
Wyndham Appointed
George Wyndham has been appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in succession to Gerald Balfour, placing...
Home Rule Deferred
The opening of the new Parliament has confirmed that Home Rule remains outside the immediate...
British Absence
The completed general election has again demonstrated the weakness of the principal British political parties...
Unity Fractures
The completion of the general election has shown that the reunion of Irish parliamentary nationalism...
Ulster Divide
The general election has confirmed a widening political division between nationalist Ireland and the unionist...
Unionists Hold
The Irish Unionist Alliance has retained eighteen of Ireland’s 103 Westminster seats as the general...
Redmond Returned
John Redmond has retained Waterford City in the general election, reinforcing his authority as chairman...
Nationalist Victory
The reunited Irish Parliamentary Party has emerged from the general election holding seventy-seven of Ireland’s...
Ireland Votes
Electors in Limerick City are voting today as the United Kingdom general election continues across...
Irish Commandos
Irish volunteers are continuing to fight beside the Boer commandos in South Africa, creating a...
Divided Loyalties
Irish soldiers continue to fight with British forces in South Africa while nationalist opposition to...
New Nationalism
Pro-Boer feeling is giving renewed confidence to younger Irish nationalists who have grown dissatisfied with...
Boer Rallies
Public support for the Boer republics has taken a prominent civic form in Limerick as...
Boers Defended
Nationalists throughout Limerick are following a forceful parliamentary protest against Britain’s continuing war in South...
National Programme
The reunited Irish Parliamenme Rule, land reform and the restoration of an Irish legislature responsible...