Dublin Castle and the First Home Rule Crisis : The Political Journal of Sir George Fottrell, 1884-1887 (Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series, Volume 33)

xii, 342pp. Deep red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. In as new condition throughout. Red endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. A vivid record of a major crisis of the late 19th century which comes from the unique perspective of someone who was both a crown official and an active Irish nationalist. It provides a first-hand, eye-witness account of British attempts to negotiate a satisfactory outcome to the Irish Question, and is complimented by a range of contemporary official documents and private correspondence between leading politicians and officials in Dublin.