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cain penn: ee at ANDREW SCHOLES The Third Home Rule crisis dominated Irish politics between 1910 and 1918. General elections bookend a period coloured by hugely dramatic and controversial events that still resonate today, such as Ulster Day, the Larne Gun-running, the Easter Rising, the Somme offensive and the Conscription Crisis. The Church of Ireland, as the largest Protestant church in Ireland, played a key role in many of these events. Andrew Scholes provides the first comprehensive study of the Church in this period. He explores in detail the -Jinplex relationship between the Church of Ireland and Irish Unionism at an official and populer level, the Church’s leading role in Ulster resisraace to Home Rule, her reaction to the outbreak of the Great “Yar and the Easter Rising, aiid the difficulties posed to the Church by the possibility of partition. Scholes also demonstrates that the Church of Ireland played a more prominent role in Ulster resistance than previous historians have allowed. He suggests that the Church of Ireland’s political influence was tied to the unity of Irish Unionism, and was weakened when the dispute over partition within Irish Unionism was replicated within the Church. Previously neglected sources are used to build a narrative that takes account of the actions of Archbishops Crozier and Bernard and Bishop D’arcy, as well as the importance of the Church’s General and Diocesan synod meetings. This high political point of view is complemented by a ‘bottom up’ study of local clergy and laity, through an examination of parochial records. ISBN 978 0 7165 3052 7 FINGAL COUNTY LIBRARIES 233-415 FCLO0000147656 | LEABHARLANNA CHONTAE FHINE GALL FINGAL COUNTY LIBRARIES Items should be returned on or before the last date shown below. Items may be renewed by personal application, writing, telephone or by accessing the online Catalogue Service on Fingal Libraries’ website. To renew give date due, borrower ticket number and PIN number if using online catalogue. Fines are charged on overdue items and will include postage incurred in recovery. Damage to, or loss of items will be charged to the borrower. Date Due Date Due Date Due Digitized by the Internet Archive In 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/churchofirelandtO000scho THE CHURCH OF IRELAND AND THE THIRD HOME RULE BILL New Directions in Irish History is a series initiated by the Royal Irish Academy National Committee for History, which showcases the work of new scholars in Irish history. The series reflects the most up-to-date research, inclusive of all historical periods and with a broad inter-disciplinary approach. FIRST TITLES IN THIS SERIES Sean MacEntee A Political Life Tom Feeney The Glory of Being Britons Civic Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Belfast John Bew Faith and Patronage The Political Career of Flaithri O Maolchonaire c. 1560-1629 Benjamin Hazard THE CHURCH OF IRELAND AND THE THIRD HOME RULE BILL ANDREW SCHOLES s IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS DUBLIN * PORTLAND, OR First published in 2010 by Irish Academic Press 2 Brookside, 920 NE 58th Avenue, Suite 300 Dundrum Road, Portland, Oregon, Dublin 14, Ireland 97213-3786, USA © 2010 Andrew Scholes www.iap.ie British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data An entry can be found on request 978 0 7165 3052 7 (cloth) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data An entry can be found on request All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved alone, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. Printed in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group, Bodmin and King’s Lynn Contents Acknowledgements vi Introduction: Defending the Walls of Jericho: The Church of Ireland and Irish Politics, 1910-18 1. ‘Life and death importance’: The Church of Ireland and Irish Unionism, 1910-11 2. ‘The citadel of Protestantism and liberty’? The Church of Ireland Episcopate and Ulster Day 3. ‘A force to be reckoned with’? Church of Ireland clergy, the Covenant, and Ulster Day 4. ‘The Red Hand of Ulster’? The Church of Ireland and the Ulster Volunteer Force, 1913-14 5. ‘The seal of lofty purpose and pure patriotism’? The Church of Ireland and the outbreak of the Great War 6. ‘A counsel of lunacy’? The Church of Ireland, the Easter Rising, and partition 7. ‘A potent instrument of national unity’? The Church of Ireland Episcopate and the Irish Convention, 1917-18 Conclusion: ‘Warring for the Promised Land’: The Church of Ireland and Irish Politics, 1910-18 Appendix: Archbishops and bishops of the Church of Ireland, 1910-20 Bibliography Index Acknowledgements This book is the result of the Ph.D. thesis I completed at Queen’s University Belfast. I owe a great deal to many people at Queen’s, past and present. Professor Alvin Jackson first stimulated my interest in Unionism and the third Home Rule period, and set me on my way on my Ph.D. Professor David Hayton, among his many other duties, supervised me for a short time, a brief period dur- ing which I learnt a lot about being an historian. Dr Fearghal McGarry, Dr Marie Coleman, Robert Blair and Professor Sean Connolly provided valuable advice and support, as did Professor John Wolffe. My greatest thanks here goes to Professor Peter Gray, my supervisor for the best part of three years. He gener- ously provided great guidance, advice, criticism and encouragement. For any errors of fact or judgement, I am, of course, solely responsible. Financially, I am grateful to the Department of Education and Learning, for their generous grant towards my tuition and living expenses. At Irish Academic Press the staff dealt with my manuscript with professional- ism and enthusiasm. I would particularly like to thank Lisa Hyde for her help in patiently guiding a first-time author through the process of publication. I owe a great deal of gratitude to the staff of the various libraries and record offices I used in the course of my research. The baulk of my research was under- taken at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). Thanks here also go to the Ulster Unionist Council, for permission to view their archive, and to Gordon Lucy for his help in facilitating this. Elsewhere, staff at Belfast Central Newspaper Library, the Robinson Library in Armagh, the Representative Church Body library, Trinity College Dublin, the National Library Ireland, the British Library, Lambeth Palace, the House of Lords, the National Archives, Kew and the Plunkett Foundation provided assistance in a professional and helpful man- ner. Particular thanks must go to the select vestries of those parish churches that granted me access to their church records, and to the many unpaid volunteers who gave up their time to allow me to view the records. Finally, I would like to thank my parents for their support and encouragement, and for providing an environment where reading and education were a valued part of growing up. Most importantly, my greatest thanks goes to my wife, Gillian, for her support and encouragement, and for patiently enduring the first year of her marriage to a Ph.D. student trying to turn his thesis into a book.
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