Before the Rising: Home Rule and the Celtic Revival

Citation

Shaw M (2016) Before the Rising: Home Rule and the Celtic Revival. In: Maley W (ed.) Scotland and the Easter Rising: Fresh Perspectives on 1916. Edinburgh: Luath Press, pp. 174-178. https://www.luath.co.uk/history/scotland-and-the-easter-rising-fresh-perspectives-on-1916

Abstract
Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scot of Irish descent and twice a candidate for the Liberal Unionists in Scotland, made a striking conversion to the cause of Irish Home Rule in 1911, influenced by his friend Roger Casement, on whose behalf he petitioned the British Prime Minister in 1916.