Butt, Isaac 1813-1879
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Born 1813 · died 1879
Isaac Butt was an Irish barrister and nationalist leader who, if not the originator of the term Home Rule, was the first to make it an effective political slogan. He was the founder (1870) and first chief of the Home Government Association and president (1873–77) of the Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain, but he was superseded in 1878 as head of the Home Rule movement by the younger and more forceful Charles Stewart Parnell. He served as a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1852 to 1865 and 1871 to 1879, representing various Irish constituencies.
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Butt's correspondence, mainly on Home Rule, with some other papers.
NLI, MSS. 8686-8713,10415, 13257.
Notes and original papers collected for a life of Butt. NLI, MSS. 830-832, 12167-12168, 13150-13151.
A letter book of the Home Rule League, containing many letters from Butt to various correspondents, 1873-1878. PRONI
Two Latin orations, 1834. Trinity College, Dublin.
Correspondents
WILLIAM JOSEPH O 'NEILL DAUNT, seven letters, 1873-1874. NLI, MS. 10507.
GEORGE DELANEY, 19 letters, 1876-1879. NLI, MS. 10512.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Earl of Beaconsfield, 13 letters, 1848-1851. Disraeli papers, National Register of Archives (NRA) 0842.
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, nine letters, 1834-1877. BL Add. MSS. 44354-44455.
SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, 16 letters, 1876-1879. St Aldwyn papers, Gloucestershire RO
SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, three letters, 1878-1879. BL Add. MS. 50040.
HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, three letters, 1857-1862.
Broadlands papers, NRA 12889.
Printed Material
TERENCE DE VERE WHITE, The Road of Excess ( Dublin, 1946).
DAVID THORNELY, Isaac Butt and Home Rule ( London, 1964).
ODNB ; Boase I 502 ; ESS III 126.
Portraits: see Thornely and White (above).