Papers on Irish Land issues. Mostly printed, chiefly parliamentary papers, with rough notes and memoranda by Lansdowne, and a copy of a letter from Lansdowne to Lord Salisbury, 1887.
Papers on Irish land purchase, 1903-1908; Irish congestion, 1907-1909; and the Irish Land Bill, 1908-1909. Mostly printed, chiefly parliamentary papers and newspaper cuttings.
Papers on the appointment of Sir Anthony MacDonnell as under-secretary for Ireland. Includes copies of correspondence between Lansdowne and MacDonnell, and further correspondence with A.J. Balfour, Arthur Godley, Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long, William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley (Lord Lieutenant o...
Law and order, including papers on cattle-driving and other offences, 1906-1910, and on the eviction of tenants at Kilmurry, Co. Kerry, 1910, with related letters from Pierce Gun Mahony, landlord of the Kilmurry estate. Mostly printed, including “Walsh’s Fort”: A Tale of Irish Life (1910), The T...
Irish Councils Bill, 1907; Home Rule Bill, 1912-1913. Mostly printed and typewritten, including newspaper cuttings, parliamentary papers, and memoranda on the passage of the Home Rule Bill through Parliament.
Vol. 1. Correspondence of Lansdowne on Irish Home Rule. Correspondents include: W.R. Anson; Arthur Bigge, Baron Stamfordham; Edward Carson, Baron Carson; Austen Chamberlain; Harold Cox; George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon; James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury; Albert Henry George...
Vol. 3. Copies of the foregoing correspondence, arranged in chronological order. With a few items of original correspondence, including letters from Andrew Bonar Law and Sir Horace Plunkett. Typewritten.
The Army and Home Rule, including papers on an alleged Army plot for the coercion of Ulster; a proposed amendment to the Army Annual Bill, designed to prevent the use of the Army to enforce Home Rule in Ulster; and the Government of Ireland (Amendment) Bill (1914). Partly printed and typewritten...