Central Board

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 587 words | Copyright

Central Board, a scheme of Irish local government devised by the English Liberal Joseph Chamberlain in 1885 as a substitute for an Irish parliament. In its final form it combined an elected ‘National Council’ to deal administratively with education and communication, together with an overhaul of county government. Misled by Capt. William O'Shea into thinking that Parnell approved of the scheme, Chamberlain was deeply affronted when he and his followers scornfully rejected it, and was later to be a formidable opponent of Gladstone's home rule bills.

James Loughlin

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