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Sir Michael McDonnell

1882–1956

An Irish barrister and historian, he wrote clearly and forcefully about Ireland’s struggle for self-government. His best-known work brings early 20th-century politics to life for modern readers.

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Ireland and the Home Rule Movement

Ireland and the Home Rule Movement

by Sir Michael McDonnell

About the author

Born in 1882, Sir Michael McDonnell was an Irish writer and lawyer who is best remembered for Ireland and the Home Rule Movement. Project Gutenberg’s catalog identifies him as “McDonnell, Michael, Sir, 1882–1956,” confirming both his dates and his authorship of that work.

Ireland and the Home Rule Movement is a historical and political study of Irish self-government and the arguments around Home Rule. The surviving description of the book presents it as an effort to explain Irish political conditions and grievances to readers of the time, with an introduction by John Redmond.

McDonnell died in 1956. Read today, his work offers a period view of one of the most important political questions in modern Irish history.