Geoffrey Hicks
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719075957
- eISBN:
- 9781781700785
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719075957.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter focuses on the years after 1852, from the formation of the Aberdeen coalition until its downfall in January 1855. It emphasizes the Conservatives' views that their successors were ...
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This chapter focuses on the years after 1852, from the formation of the Aberdeen coalition until its downfall in January 1855. It emphasizes the Conservatives' views that their successors were responsible for endangering the relationship they had nurtured with France as well as fatally mishandling relations with Russia. The onset of war, less than eighteen months after the advent of Aberdeen's coalition, illustrated practical difficulties for the Conservatives to form an administration after the fall of government in January 1855. Furthermore, it highlights that the Cabinet became the most important forum for debate on foreign affairs, because from February 1853 to 1855, four former Foreign Secretaries came and left the coalition Cabinet. This chapter not only emphasizes the concerns about the Anglo-French relationship but explores its impact on the British position in the deteriorating Near East.Less
This chapter focuses on the years after 1852, from the formation of the Aberdeen coalition until its downfall in January 1855. It emphasizes the Conservatives' views that their successors were responsible for endangering the relationship they had nurtured with France as well as fatally mishandling relations with Russia. The onset of war, less than eighteen months after the advent of Aberdeen's coalition, illustrated practical difficulties for the Conservatives to form an administration after the fall of government in January 1855. Furthermore, it highlights that the Cabinet became the most important forum for debate on foreign affairs, because from February 1853 to 1855, four former Foreign Secretaries came and left the coalition Cabinet. This chapter not only emphasizes the concerns about the Anglo-French relationship but explores its impact on the British position in the deteriorating Near East.
Paul Huddie
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781781382547
- eISBN:
- 9781786945464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382547.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter recounts the responses of Ireland’s MPs and peers in the British Houses of Parliament between 1853 and 1856; a period when there was no nationalist party that opposed the war. It will be ...
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This chapter recounts the responses of Ireland’s MPs and peers in the British Houses of Parliament between 1853 and 1856; a period when there was no nationalist party that opposed the war. It will be shown that during the conflict Irish MPs and peers were largely indistinguishable from their British colleagues and counterparts. This chapter will show that the holders of Irish seats were largely absent from the ranks of the Conservative rebels and they did not participate in the goading and divisive tactics of Benjamin Disraeli, but also that Irish Liberals were absent from the anti-war and often anti-ministerial section of the Liberal benches. Irish members also responded to a number of distinctly Irish issues, and although they never moulded imperial issues into Irish ones, they did use the perceived valour and actual participation of Irish soldiers and sailors in the war to defend other distinctly Irish interests. It will be seen that the war represents a distinct period in Ireland’s parliamentary relationship with the British Empire, during which Irish members supported its defence and its interests in what they saw as a just and necessary war.Less
This chapter recounts the responses of Ireland’s MPs and peers in the British Houses of Parliament between 1853 and 1856; a period when there was no nationalist party that opposed the war. It will be shown that during the conflict Irish MPs and peers were largely indistinguishable from their British colleagues and counterparts. This chapter will show that the holders of Irish seats were largely absent from the ranks of the Conservative rebels and they did not participate in the goading and divisive tactics of Benjamin Disraeli, but also that Irish Liberals were absent from the anti-war and often anti-ministerial section of the Liberal benches. Irish members also responded to a number of distinctly Irish issues, and although they never moulded imperial issues into Irish ones, they did use the perceived valour and actual participation of Irish soldiers and sailors in the war to defend other distinctly Irish interests. It will be seen that the war represents a distinct period in Ireland’s parliamentary relationship with the British Empire, during which Irish members supported its defence and its interests in what they saw as a just and necessary war.
