How Gladstone Helped Ireland
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1. He disestablished the Church of Ireland (1869), thereby solving a long-term Irish grievance…an outstandingly successful piece of legislation, steered through the Lords with much dexterity (even Archbishop Temple, the Archbishop of Canterbury voted for it!)
2. He threw himself into the impossibly complex area of landlord-tenant relations, an area so complicated and politically dangerous that no politician before him had sort to go. OK, the Land Act was limited, but its failings were down to naivety, not a lack of ambition. Gladstone really thought that he’d solved the land problem once and for all.

Note, unusually, he personally had drafted this legislation; he’d put hours of painstaking research into it!

3. He tried to set-up an Irish University for all faiths! No-one before him had tried! It wasn’t his fault that sectarian in-fighting rendered the task impossible!

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1. Gladstone looked at Irish problems afresh and that gave the Irish Catholics hope for the future
2. Gladstone made a genuine attempt to remedy Irish grievances - For and Against
3. How Gladstone Helped Ireland
4. To what extent was Gladstone’s involvement

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