Serving with George Gavin (to 1874) Richard O'Shaughnessy (from 1874)
Preceded by
Francis William Russell George Gavin
Succeeded by
Daniel Fitzgerald Gabbett Richard O'Shaughnessy
Member of Parliament for Youghal
In office 1852–1865
Preceded by
Thomas Chisholm Anstey
Succeeded by
Joseph Neale McKenna
Personal details
Born
6 September 1813 Glenfin, County Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
Died
5 May 1879 (aged 65) Clonskeagh, Dublin, Ireland
Political party
Home Rule League (from 1873)
Other political affiliations
Home Government Association (1870–73) Irish Conservative Party (until 1870)
Alma mater
Trinity College Dublin
Occupation
Professor, lawyer, politician, and Queen's Counsel
Isaac ButtQC MP (6 September 1813 – 5 May 1879) was an Irish barrister, editor, politician, Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, economist and the founder and first leader of a number of Irish nationalist parties and organisations. He was a leader in the Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society in 1836, the Home Government Association in 1870, and the Home Rule League in 1873. Colin W. Reid argues that Home Rule was the mechanism Butt proposed to bind Ireland to Great Britain. It would end the ambiguities of the Act of Union of 1800. He portrayed a federalised United Kingdom, which would have weakened Irish exceptionalism within a broader British context. Butt was representative of a constructive national unionism.[1] As an economist, he made significant contributions regarding the potential resource mobilisation and distribution aspects of protection, and analysed deficiencies in the Irish economy such as sparse employment, low productivity, and misallocation of land.[2] He dissented from the established Ricardian theories and favoured some welfare state concepts.[3] As editor he made the Dublin University Magazine a leading Irish journal of politics and literature.[4]
^Colin W. Reid, "‘An Experiment in Constructive Unionism’: Isaac Butt, Home Rule and Federalist Political Thought during the 1870s." English Historical Review 129.537 (2014): 332-361.
^Alan O’Day, "Isaac Butt and Neglected Political Economists." in English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists (2010): 375+.
^R.D. Collison Black, "The Irish dissenters and nineteenth-century political economy." Hermathena 135 (1983): 120-137. online
^Wayne E. Hall, "The 'Dublin University Magazine' and Isaac Butt, 1834-1838." Victorian Periodicals Review 20.2 (1987): 43-56.
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