Empire and Ireland : the transatlantic career of the Canadian imperialist Hamar Greenwood, 1870-1948 / Roy MacLaren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacLaren, Roy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greenwood, Hamar Greenwood, Viscount, 1870-1948.

Greenwood, Hamar Greenwood.

Ireland. Chief Secretary.

Cabinet officers--Great Britain--Biography.

Cabinet officers.

Great Britain.

Ireland. Chief Secretary--Officials and employees--Biography.

Ireland.

Ireland--Politics and government--1910-1921.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1901-1936.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.

Summary:

In Empire and Ireland, Roy MacLaren recounts the life and political career of Hamar Greenwood, a young man from rural Canada who reached the imperial pinnacle of the British cabinet. Greenwood's arduous route was first beset by conservative opposition to his liberal convictions and later by hostility towards his role as chief secretary for Ireland under British prime minister Lloyd George during the tumultuous years of 1920 to 1922. A long-time advocate of Home Rule for Ireland, Greenwood endeavoured to provide Ireland with the same Dominion status as Canada. Dominion Home Rule, however, was not enough for Irish Republicans, who blamed him for the "Black and Tan" reprisals carried out by the British, and too much for Conservative Unionists, who believed he was insufficiently hard line. Eventually abandoning the divided Liberals for the Conservatives, he entered the House of Lords as Viscount Greenwood. By then Britain could no longer sustain an empire which, in his eyes, had been a cradle for justice, liberty, and development. The first biography of Hamar Greenwood, MacLaren's thought-provoking work also illuminates the meaning of liberal imperialism, a significant factor in political thinking and policy formation throughout the global empire in Greenwood's time, which still has resonance today. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Canadian Origins, 1870-1895 7

2 British Beginnings, 1895-1906 25

3 House of Commons, 1906-1910 41

4 A Member for the Empire, 1910-1911 70

5 Pre-War Ambitions, 1911-1914 85

6 First World War, 1914-1918 104

7 Postwar Upheavals, 1918-1920 118

8 Ireland, 1919-1920 128

9 New Men and New Measures, 1920 145

10 A Pussyfoot Chief Secretary, 1920 161

11 Reprisals and Reprisals, 1920-1921 179

12 Peace Feelers, 1920-1921 196

13 Final Manoeuvrings, 1921 219

14 Truce, 1921 232

15 A Resolution of Sorts, 1921-1922 246

16 Postwar Alarms and Excursions, 1922-1924 260

17 Egypt and Palestine, 1925 275

18 Last Days in the House of Commons, 1925-1930 284

19 House of Lords and the World of Business, 1930-1948 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

MacLaren, Roy, 1934-, author. Empire and Ireland.

ISBN:

9780773545489

0773545484

OCLC:

895338568