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Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question by Various.

The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published in 1887, this work contains articles on both sides of the issue.

"The object of the writers has been to treat the difficult questions connected with the Government of Ireland in a dispassionate spirit; and the volume is offered to the public in the hope that it may, at a time of warm controversy over passing events, help to lead thoughtful men back to the consideration of the principles which underlie those questions, and which it seeks to elucidate by calm discussion and by references to history." ( TriciaG & Editor's Note)
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Post by NolweAyan »

Hello,

I'd love to start with section 11 and 12, the unionist postion, parts 1 and 2.

Thank you so much for launching this.
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You're in!

You're welcome for launching this. Hopefully we'll get some good interest, so that the project becomes publicly available fairly quickly. :)
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Post by Ciufi »

I'd like to claim sections 2 and 3.
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Great - thanks!
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Thank you! PL OK.

So, did you realize you'd be reading about post-Civil War American history in a project on Irish home rule? :lol:
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To tell the truth, that's why I claimed the chapter. Incredibly interesting!
I would also like to claim sections 25 and 26 (although do I feel a little presumptuous asking to read an essay by Gladstone with my American accent...).
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Ah! Well, perfect then! 8-)

Gladstone is yours! We don't worry much about accents, anyway. :)
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Thanks! Section 3 PL OK!
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Hello, Just a few technical questions: my text has footnotes. What is the proper way for reading them? "footnote: see...." "end of footnote"? (Some of the footnotes just cite their sources, some develop a whole argument.)
And as for the many people quoted in my text, I suppose I am to say "quote" and then end with "end of quote"?
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NolweAyan wrote: August 25th, 2018, 11:28 am Hello, Just a few technical questions: my text has footnotes. What is the proper way for reading them? "footnote: see...." "end of footnote"? (Some of the footnotes just cite their sources, some develop a whole argument.)
And as for the many people quoted in my text, I suppose I am to say "quote" and then end with "end of quote"?
The word counts do not include footnotes. I'd prefer they weren't read, but if any of them are SO important that you feel they should not be left out, then yes, "footnote" [footnote text] "end footnote" works.

Regarding the quotes (wow, there are a lot of them!), it's at your discretion. Some of them I wouldn't do quote/end quote because they're short, or it's obvious where the quote begins and ends. For ones that it's less obvious where the quote begins or ends (I find longer quotes are like this), the quote/end quote (or quote/end of quote) would be good.

Clear as mud? Yeah, I thought so. :lol:
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Post by NolweAyan »

Great, it clears things up. I was kind of arriving at the same intuition regarding quotes, after recording the first 4 minutes.
As for footnotes, most are just sources. I'll read the others.
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