Childers argues for a definite scheme of Irish self-government by setting Ireland’s history beside that of the colonies. He compares the colonization and revolution of America and Ireland, Grattan’s Parliament and the Union, then the self-governing experience of Canada, Australia and South Africa, before laying out a constitution and financial settlement for an Irish parliament.
A serious political treatise by the author of The Riddle of the Sands, later a central figure in the Irish revolution. Download the free EPUB.