HIST 3130 Lecture Notes - Irish Republican Brotherhood, Keir Hardie, Victorian Era

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Accessible to the poor as by this time people had more money to spend and entrance was cheap, great exhibition had middle class values. British national consciousness in victorian era was bound up in the empire. In the 1870s britain was declining some imperial responsibilities, just as british economic prosperity was beginning to decline, by 1890s was losing influence to germany and usa. Went to war twice for empire in ww1 and 2 afterwards britain was weak. ireland became part of the uk in 1800, but the nationalist movement remained strong throughout the. nationalists petitioned for home rule but they were continually defeated by the british parliament. By beginning of 20th century the movement stalled, radicals under irish republican brotherhood launched war in 1916 (easter rebellion) te irish war of independence (1919-1921) and posed a challenge for policing of crime in british cities. she and her husband prince albert (d. 1861) came t define the ultimate ideal of victorian family life.

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