'No longer clad in corduroy'? The Glasgow University Irish National Club, 1907-1917

O-Cathain, Mairtin Sean orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6740-2598 (2020) 'No longer clad in corduroy'? The Glasgow University Irish National Club, 1907-1917. The Scottish Historical Review, 99 (2). pp. 271-294. ISSN 0036-9241

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2020.0464

Abstract

Unique among university clubs in Britain, the Glasgow University Irish National Club emerged before the first world war among mainly second generation, Scots-born Irish students to assist in the campaign for Irish home rule. It was a useful adjunct to the home rule movement and helped the Irish and mainly catholic students at the university carve out a niche for themselves firstly within the institution and thereafter in wider society. This reflected a growing Irish catholic middle class desirous of playing a greater role in Scottish public life during a time of great transition for the Irish in Scotland.


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