Loyal Addresses
<span class="excerpt_part">...them as proof of continuing institutional attachment to the <strong>monarchy</strong>. The presentation of an address was among the most carefully regulated customs surrounding a royal visit. Corporations, harbour authorities, universities,...</span>
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Divided Allegiance
<span class="excerpt_part">...disagreement within nationalism itself: whether Ireland may preserve a ceremonial connection with the <strong>monarchy</strong> under self-government, or whether genuine national freedom requires the rejection of British authority altogether. Advanced nationalists...</span>
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Divided Welcome
<span class="excerpt_part">...of the visit, such gestures represented recognition of Ireland within the <strong>monarchy</strong>; to critics, they could not erase the constitutional grievances and coercive legislation associated with Victoria’s long reign. The...</span>
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Royal Dublin
<span class="excerpt_part">...accused the <strong>monarchy</strong> of representing an imperial system that failed Ireland during its greatest catastrophe. Such arguments are understood in Limerick, where famine memory, eviction, rural hardship and emigration remain...</span>
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Cheering Crowds
<span class="excerpt_part">...constitutional nationalists sought Home Rule without necessarily rejecting the <strong>monarchy</strong>. Others may have attended from simple curiosity, drawn by the holiday atmosphere, decorations, music, soldiers and unusual movement through the...</span>
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Unionist Display
<span class="excerpt_part">...public figures have welcomed the visit as proof that attachment to the <strong>monarchy</strong> remains substantial despite nationalist demands for Home Rule. The ceremonies present Ireland not as a nation awaiting...</span>
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Children Gather
<span class="excerpt_part">...and other nationalist women objected particularly to the effort to associate childhood, education and public charity with loyalty to the <strong>monarchy</strong>. Their opposition helped inspire plans for a separate patriotic...</span>
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Nationalist Resistance
<span class="excerpt_part">...488–504. James H. Murphy, Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and <strong>Monarchy</strong> in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2001; consult the chapters concerning Victoria’s...</span>
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Pageantry Challenged
<span class="excerpt_part">...no. 124, 1999, pp. 488–504. James H. Murphy, Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and <strong>Monarchy</strong> in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2001; consult...</span>
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Patriotic Children
<span class="excerpt_part">...Sunday. Their discussion turned towards the children’s royal celebration, which they regarded as an effort to associate youth, education and generosity with the British <strong>monarchy</strong>. Maud Gonne became president of...</span>
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