The Framework of Home Rule

The author advocates a specific plan for Irish self-government grounded in a detailed historical examination of colonization, revolutionary periods, parliamentary changes, and the Union, and compares Irish experience with other settler dominions. He analyzes constitutional options (federal versus colonial), the question of whether Irish delegates should sit in the imperial legislature, and lays out fiscal arrangements including revenue, expenditure, national debt, customs and excise, and land-purchase finance. The work concludes by proposing an Irish constitution and practical financial and administrative mechanisms intended to make devolved government viable within the imperial framework.