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Edward Blake, Irish Nationalist: A Canadian Statesman in Irish Politics 1892-1907

Edward Blake, Irish Nationalist: A Canadian Statesman in Irish Politics 1892-1907

Banks, Margaret

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Canadian HistoryGeneral Political ScienceIrish History

ISBN10: 1442651636
ISBN13: 9781442651630
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1957
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In 1892, Edward Blake, ex-Premier of Ontario and former leader of the Liberal party in the Canadian House of Common, was invited by the Irish parliamentary party to stand for election in the British Parliament. This surprising invitation grew out of the conflicts of the Irish Home Rule controversy, then a critical issue in British politics. When Blake abandoned the Canadian political scene he had just severed connections with the Liberal party, which he had served as Minister of justice in the only federal Liberal administration down to 1896, and as Leader of the Opposition from 1880 to 1887. Irish Home Rule was a cause which engaged the sympathies of Liberals all over the British Empire, and although Blake intended to return permanently to Canada, he remained a member of the British Parliament, devoting ceaseless efforts to the Irish interest, until illness forced his retirement in 1907.

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