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Isaac Butt QC MP (6 September 1813 – 5 May 1879) was an Irish barrister, editor, politician, Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, economist and the founder and first leader of a number of Irish nationalist parties and organisations.
2 set 2024 · Isaac Butt was a lawyer and Irish nationalist leader who, if not the originator of the term Home Rule, was the first to make it an effective political slogan. He was the founder (1870) and first chief of the Home Government Association and president (1873–77) of the Home Rule Confederation of Great.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Isaac Butt, the man responsible for calling the meeting, was the final speaker of the evening and was perhaps the most influential man in attendance. A large, barrel-chested man with a shock of white hair, thick lips, unfashionably clean-shaven and a bit dishevelled in appearance, Butt appeared older than his 56 years.
This chapter examines the contribution of Isaac Butt in the agitation for Irish self-government in 1870. Butt proposed not only the dismantling of the United Kingdom but its federalisation, with England, Scotland, and Ireland having local parliaments subordinate to Westminster.
24 gen 2020 · Isaac Butt was a lifelong champion of unionism; yet by 1870, he had nevertheless arrived at the conclusion that the concentration of political power in Westminster was destabilising and contrary to the ethos of the Union between Britain and Ireland. However, the emergence of Butt's federalist ideas has only been considered within an ...
He advised them to support tenant right, denominational education, and other popular causes because their parliamentary conduct would influence the support the Catholic masses gave to Home Rule (Isaac Butt to Philip Callan, Dec. 12, 1872, M.S. 830, National Library of Ireland).
14 mag 2018 · Butt, Isaac (1813–79). Founder of the Home Rule movement. At the outset of his political and legal career, Butt was a vigorous defender of an Orange Toryism.
