Irish question

[1]In the United Kingdom general election of 1868, a coalition of Liberals and Irish Nationalists formed based on the fact that a wrong was done to Ireland and that it must be corrected.

[2] During the first ministry of William Ewart Gladstone, a total of three "grievances" were made to him by the Irish: "religious, agrarian, and nationalist".

[2] These were, but not limited to, the Roman Catholic faith being persecuted since the 16th century, the poverty wrought upon by legislation, such as Ireland's woollen industry, and English landlords, and "Poyning's Law", which held the Irish government's action subject to the acceptation of the government of England under King Henry VII.

[3] In 1886, with the introduction of the first Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons, the term the Anglo-Irish quarrel[4] gained favour and became more acceptable than the implied condescension of the Irish question.

Normal British domestic issues could not be adequately addressed because of the political divisions created by the status of Ireland.