Home Government Association Explained

Country:Ireland
Home Government Association
Successor:Home Rule League
Ideology:Irish nationalism
Home Rule
Colours:Green
Elections Dab1:List of United Kingdom general elections

The Home Government Association was a pressure group launched by Isaac Butt in support of home rule for Ireland at a meeting in Bilton's Hotel, Dublin, on 19 May 1870.

The meeting was attended or supported by sixty-one people of different political and religious persuasions, including six Fenians, Butt seemingly having consulted with the Irish Republican Brotherhood before launching his initiative.[1]

Its inaugural public meeting was held on 1 September 1870. Active in campaigning in several elections for the association was P. F. Johnson.

It became the Home Rule League in 1873.

Notes and References

  1. Jackson, Alvin: Home Rule: An Irish History 1800—2000 pp.31-32, Phoenix Press (2003)