Isaac Butt
Isaac Butt
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Author(s): O'Day, Alan
ISBN No.: 9781906359317
Pages: 128
Year: 201406
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 24.60
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Isaac Butt (1813-79) was a foremost figure in nineteenth-century Ireland and a substantial one in British politics. A brilliant graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he was a famous advocate of the Irish and English Bars, MP for English and Irish constituencies, leader of the tenant movement for reform of the land laws in Ireland, and founder and chairman of the Home Rule party of the 1870s. He exemplified a new, admittedly minority creed of progressive Protestant Toryism that sought to adapt Ascendancy privilege to make Ireland safe for his own kind. Butt was an Irish 'patriot' concerned about the effects of British policy in Ireland, the laggard economic development of his country and wished to see Catholics and Protestants reconciled.


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