Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question, credited to James Bryce; William Ewart Gladstone; John Morley; Edwin Lawrence Godkin; Henry Thring; Malcolm MacColl; Richard Barry O'Brien, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question by James Bryce; William Ewart Gladstone; John Morley; Edwin Lawrence Godkin; Henry Thring; Malcolm MacColl; Richard Barry O'Brien. Read in English by volunteer readers. The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published in 1887, this work contains articles in favour of the measure. (Irish home rule was finally approved in 1914 but implementation was suspended until after WWI.) "The object of the writers has been to treat the difficult questions connected with the Government of Ireland in a dispassionate spirit; and the volume is offered to the public in the hope that it may, at a time of warm controversy over passing events, help to lead thoughtful men back to the consideration of the principles which underlie those questions, and which it seeks to elucidate by calm discussion and by references to history." (Summary by TriciaG & from Editor's Note)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question
• Author credits: James Bryce; William Ewart Gladstone; John Morley; Edwin Lawrence Godkin; Henry Thring; Malcolm MacColl; Richard Barry O'Brien
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 11:13:00

Catalogue topics

• Ireland
• gladstone
• home rule
• politics

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - Preface by Earl Spencer, K.G. — 24:11
2. 02 - American Home Rule by E. L. Godkin, pt 1 — 23:05
3. 03 - American Home Rule by E. L. Godkin, pt 2 — 23:30
4. 04 - How We Became Home Rulers by James Bryce, M.P., pt 1 — 21:49
5. 05 - How We Became Home Rulers by James Bryce, M.P., pt 2 — 19:42
6. 06 - How We Became Home Rulers by James Bryce, M.P., pt 3 — 28:15
7. 07 - Home Rule and Imperial Unity by Lord Thring, pt 1 — 24:25
8. 08 - Home Rule and Imperial Unity by Lord Thring, pt 2 — 24:21
9. 09 - The Irish Government Bill and the Irish Land Bill by Lord Thring, pt 1 — 27:51
10. 10 - The Irish Government Bill and the Irish Land Bill by Lord Thring, pt 2 — 32:52
11. 11 - The ''Unionist'' Position by Canon MacColl, pt 1 — 25:54
12. 12 - The ''Unionist'' Position by Canon MacColl, pt 2 — 27:54
13. 13 - A Lawyer's Objections to Home Rule by E. L. Godkin, pt 1 — 31:44
14. 14 - A Lawyer's Objections to Home Rule by E. L. Godkin, pt 2 — 31:49
15. 15 - The ''Unionist'' Case for Home Rule by R. Barry O'Brien, pt 1 — 21:52
16. 16 - The ''Unionist'' Case for Home Rule by R. Barry O'Brien, pt 2 — 34:12
17. 17 - The ''Unionist'' Case for Home Rule by R. Barry O'Brien, pt 3 — 23:53
18. 18 - The ''Unionist'' Case for Home Rule by R. Barry O'Brien, pt 4 — 15:17
19. 19 - Ireland's Alternatives by Lord Thring, pt 1 — 22:43
20. 20 - Ireland's Alternatives by Lord Thring, pt 2 — 20:43
21. 21 - The Past and Future of the Irish Question by James Bryce, M.P., pt 1 — 29:24
22. 22 - The Past and Future of the Irish Question by James Bryce, M.P., pt 2 — 30:22
23. 23 - The Past and Future of the Irish Question by James Bryce, M.P., pt 3 — 30:30
24. 24 - Some Arguments Considered by John Morley, M.P. — 37:09

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