Isaac Butt: Collected Writings

by Isaac Butt, Alan O'Day (Editor)

This study addresses the themes underpinning the career of 19th century Irish nationalist Isaac Butt, suggesting that he is a complex figure who is best understood in the context of an age before mass mobilization of popular sentiment and one who attempted with varying successes to guide the nation along a path where its peoples shared mutual respect and tolerance. In the short-run he seemed an anachronism but over the longer-term many of his hopes were enshrined in twenty-first century Ireland.

Hardcover

First published May 28, 2014

About the author

Isaac Butt QC MP (6 September 1813 – 5 May 1879), was an Irish barrister, politician, Member of Parliament (M.P.) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, and the founder and first leader of a number of Irish nationalist parties and organisations, including the Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society in 1836, the Home Government Association in 1870 and in 1873 the Home Rule League.