| Chapter 1: | Two Tory Radicals: Lord Randolph Churchill, Joseph Chamberlain and the Evolution of their Views on the Irish Question to 1880 |
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Chapter One
Two “Tory Radicals”: Lord Randolph Churchill, Joseph Chamberlain and the Evolution of their Views on the Irish Question to 1880
Minutely trace man’s life; year after year Through all his days let all his deeds appear,And then, though some may in that life be strange,Yet there appears no vast nor sudden change;The links that bind those various deeds are seen,And no mysterious void is left between.
James Crabbe.1
The later half of the nineteenth century was a time of turmoil in British politics. From 1880, when Charles Stewart Parnell became the leader of what was to become by 1885 a disciplined and united Irish Parliamentary Party, Ireland became a running sore on the British body