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100 1 _aO'Brien, William,
_d1852-1928
245 1 4 _aThe Irish cause and "the Irish Convention"
250 _aThird edition.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-14
508 _aCharlene Taylor, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _aThe Irish cause and "the Irish Convention" by William O'Brien is a political pamphlet—an authorized parliamentary speech with appended correspondence—written in the early 20th century. The book examines Ireland’s Home Rule crisis, rejecting partition and assessing the proposed Irish Convention as a potential route to a constitutional settlement. The speech denounces the government’s partition plan as an affront to Irish nationhood and dismisses the proposed Council of Ireland as a cosmetic device. It criticizes British and Irish parliamentary failures that emboldened Ulster resistance and alienated Irish youth, then pivots to an alternative: let Irishmen frame a constitution through a small, non-partisan round-table conference, submit the result to a nationwide referendum, and secure broad consent without coercion or partition. The appended letters show the Prime Minister inviting participation in the Convention and the author’s refusal, with detailed objections: a convention too unwieldy and politicized; outdated local bodies and party machines dominating; key communities (notably Ulster Nationalists, labor, and universities) underrepresented; and the Ulster Unionist Council positioned to force six-county exclusion. He warns that failure will discredit constitutionalism, inflame extremism, and drive Ireland to seek redress before an international peace forum. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cDublin: Maunsel & Company, Limited, 1917
653 _aHome rule -- Ireland
653 _aIrish question
653 _aLloyd George, David, 1863-1945
653 _aIreland -- Politics and government -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/irishcausetheiri00obri/page/n1/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78446
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