Home Government Association

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The Home Government Association was an early 19th-century Irish political organization that campaigned for domestic self-government and laid groundwork for the broader Irish Home Rule movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Irish political organization
political organization
areaServed Ireland NERFINISHED
basedOn principle of federalism within the United Kingdom
coreDemand restoration of an Irish parliament in Dublin
country Ireland NERFINISHED
dissolved 1873
fieldOfWork Irish self-government
constitutional reform
foundedBy Isaac Butt NERFINISHED
goal Home Rule for Ireland NERFINISHED
domestic self-government for Ireland
establishment of an Irish legislature
hasEffect consolidation of Irish nationalist MPs into a more coherent party
hasPart local Home Rule clubs
historicalPeriod 19th century
historicalSignificance laid groundwork for organized Irish Home Rule politics
ideology Irish nationalism
constitutional nationalism
inception 1870
influenced Charles Stewart Parnell’s later Home Rule strategy
inspired formation of the Home Rule League
later Irish Parliamentary Party organization
languageOfWork English
location Dublin NERFINISHED
method constitutional agitation
parliamentary reform
movement Irish Home Rule movement NERFINISHED
notableMember A. M. Sullivan NERFINISHED
Isaac Butt NERFINISHED
John Martin NERFINISHED
Joseph Biggar NERFINISHED
opposedBy British Conservative Party NERFINISHED
British Liberal Party centralists
opposedTo direct rule of Ireland from Westminster
organizationalForm association
politicalPosition moderate
politicalScope constitutional, non-revolutionary nationalism
politicalSystemContext United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland NERFINISHED
precededBy loose Irish nationalist parliamentary groupings
replacedBy Home Rule League NERFINISHED
strategy seeking devolution within the United Kingdom
supportedBy Irish landowners sympathetic to Home Rule
Irish middle class
Irish professional classes
typeOfElectoralActivity candidate sponsorship in UK parliamentary elections

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Irish Home Rule movement hasPart Home Government Association