THE RECOLLECTIONS FROM HENRY ROBINSON OF THE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS OF 1885-1886. HENRY ROBINSON, MEMORIES: WISE AND OTHERWISE (LONDON: CASSELL AND CO., 1923), pp. 78-85

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THE RECOLLECTIONS FROM HENRY ROBINSON OF THE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS OF 1885-1886. HENRY ROBINSON, MEMORIES: WISE AND OTHERWISE (LONDON: CASSELL AND CO., 1923), pp. 78-85

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ABSTRACT

When Gladstone's Government came in with the Aberdeens at the Viceregal Lodge and John Morley as Chief Secretary, the country was soon plunged into all the excitement of a Home Rule Bill, ¹ which occupied the entire thoughts of the nation to the exclusion of everything else, except in the distressful West, where once more the cry of famine was raised.