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Cosmopolitan nationalism in the Victorian Empire : Ireland, India and the politics of Alfred Webb
The first biography of Alfred Webb, Irish nationalist and president of the 1894 Indian National Congress. The biography explores how Webb viewed nationalism as a vehicle for global social justice. Drawing on archives in Britain, Ireland and India the author reveals how Irish and Indians used cosmopolitan London to create networks across the Empire.
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Imperial Politics and the London Irish
As the economically dynamic capital of the British Empire and its seat of government, London provided a long-term home to a substantial Irish immigrant community as well as a temporary base for Ireland’s members of parliament. What makes this community particularly significant is that one of the most important political concerns for late-Victorian Britain’s politicians was how to pacify, manage, or support the Irish. While Irish Home Rule dominated political debate and determined British elections on a national level, the menace of the (frequently Irish) urban poor in Britain preoccupied middle-class imaginations on a local level. This chapter identifies a third dimension of the Irish presence in the British political imagination and reality, the imperial, and considers how Irish issues were filtered through an imperial lens in the politics of late-Victorian London. Fusing together evidence and scholarly literature on demographics, election results, political rhetoric and associational culture, I demonstrate that the politics of the London Irish had an imperial dimension as well as a local one.
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