TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patrick Murphy
PY  - 2026
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-9094
SN  - 9781803748269
TI  - The All for Ireland League
T2  - Conflict, Conciliation and The Banshee’s Kiss
DO  - 10.3726/b22439
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1675444
N2  - The launch of the All for Ireland League in 1910 sent shock waves through Irish nationalism and led to widespread rioting and violence in Cork City and County. It represented the first breakaway from John Redmond’s Irish parliamentary party but, more importantly, challenged one of the central weaknesses of nationalism itself: the failure to build an inclusive vision of an independent nation and the belief that it could ignore the wishes of unionists.  Drawing on a wide range of primary source material, this is the first detailed account of the All for Ireland League. The study explores the history of the League and its charismatic founder William O’Brien who attempted to build a new type of non-sectarian politics during Ireland’s most turbulent era and argued that a failure to do so would condemn Ireland to unending strife, what he called The Banshee’s Kiss. This book unearths a forgotten piece of history with an important echo from the past as Ireland faces new dilemmas and challenges.
KW  - Irish independence, Home Rule, reconciliation between nationalists and unionists, violent conflict between nationalists in Cork 1910, divisions in Irish nationalism, O’Brienite influence on the independence struggle in Cork, populism in pre-independence Irish politics, splits in the labour movement in Cork, effects of First World War on Irish nationalism, Patrick Murphy, The All For Ireland League
LA  - English
ER  -