Titlebook: Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire; Ireland, India and t Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of

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,‘A union of hearts firmly based on love of Ireland’: Cosmopolitan Friendship in the Imperial Metropwell as enduring several high-profile feuds, the Irish Party fostered deep friendships that have received comparatively less attention. With hindsight, Webb recalled that on the eve of the Parnell Split ‘our unity and brotherhood were the envy of other parties.’

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,‘How rich my life has been, not in itself but in its associations’: An Introduction to Alfred Webb,r, social activist, Irish nationalist MP and president of the Indian National Congress. Using Webb as a window, this study tracks the movement of ideas through the Atlantic World, Britain and Ireland, and across the Empire. It begins by analysing Webb’s upbringing in Dublin by Quaker printers who we

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,‘Interested in people of all countries, especially of America’: A Quaker Family in the Atlantic Worparents espoused a particularly radical form of Quakerism that laid the foundations for Webb’s future involvement in political and civic life, and they also shaped Webb’s intellectual spheres of reference. They negotiated the demands and responsibilities of Quakerism in a time in which Quakers were

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,‘The labours and responsibilities nearly killed me’: Webb and Social Activism in Victorian Dublin,ivism was then, in turn, the springboard for him to become involved in national elected politics. Social activism can be understood as a broad umbrella term to encompass activity done on a voluntary basis in the public sphere with the intention of building social capital, with particular emphasis on

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,‘Some curious characters floated on the surface’: Webb’s Entry into Nationalist Politics,ual political cause for an Irish Quaker to adopt, but it did not constitute a rupture with his friends, family or social circle or a bizarre and illogical departure from his beliefs. Webb’s sense of social justice led him towards home rule, just as many British liberals and radicals eventually embra

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,‘I am willing to take any dangerous part’: Webb in the World of Parnell and Gladstone,as a master of the politics of ambiguity, a style of politics to which Alfred Webb was spectacularly unsuited. Webb’s almost pathological honesty caused conflict on several occasions: when he felt compelled to speak out against party policy and when others deceived him. However, Webb also found new

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,‘A union of hearts firmly based on love of Ireland’: Cosmopolitan Friendship in the Imperial Metropant and his personal anguish over the Parnell Split and its aftermath. However, when Webb joined the Irish nationalist movement he did not renounce his radical upbringing or abandon the range of progressive causes he had joined in the Dublin of the 1860s. Rather, his interests came full circle throu