Editing Isaac Butt (section)

{{Short description|Irish nationalist politician and barrister}}
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| name               = Isaac Butt
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| caption            = Isaac Butt, portrait by [[John Butler Yeats]]

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| office             = 1st Leader of the [[Home Rule League]]
| term_start         = 21 November 1873
| term_end           = 5 May 1879
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| successor          = [[William Shaw (Irish politician)|William Shaw]]

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| office2            =  [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Limerick City (UK Parliament constituency)|Limerick]]
| term_start2        =  1871
| term_end2          =  1879
| alongside2         =  [[George Gavin]]<br /><small>(to 1874)</small><br />[[Richard O'Shaughnessy (MP)|Richard O'Shaughnessy]]<br /><small>(from 1874)</small>
| predecessor2       =  [[Francis William Russell]]<br />[[George Gavin]]
| successor2         =  [[Daniel Fitzgerald Gabbett]]<br />[[Richard O'Shaughnessy (MP)|Richard O'Shaughnessy]]
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| office3            =  [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Youghal (UK Parliament constituency)|Youghal]]
| term_start3        =  1852
| term_end3          =  1865
| predecessor3       =  [[Thomas Chisholm Anstey]]
| successor3         =  [[Joseph Neale McKenna]]

| birth_date         = 6 September 1813
| birth_place        = Glenfin,<br /> [[County Donegal]],<br /> [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]
| death_date         = 5 May 1879 (aged 65)
| death_place        = [[Clonskeagh]],<br /> [[Dublin]],<br /> [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]
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| party              = [[Home Rule League]]<br /><small>(from 1873)</small>
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| alma_mater         = [[Trinity College Dublin]]
| occupation         = Professor, lawyer, politician, and [[Queen's Counsel]]
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'''Isaac Butt''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|QC|MP}} (6 September 1813&nbsp;– 5 May 1879) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[barrister]], editor, politician, [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|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 [[Acts of Union 1800|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.<ref>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.</ref> 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.<ref>Alan O’Day, "Isaac Butt and Neglected Political Economists." in ''English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists '' (2010): 375+.</ref> He dissented from the established [[Ricardian economics|Ricardian]] theories and favoured some [[welfare state]] concepts.<ref>R.D.  Collison Black,  "The Irish dissenters and nineteenth-century political economy." ''Hermathena'' 135 (1983): 120-137. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23040824 online]</ref> As editor he made  the ''Dublin University Magazine'' a leading Irish journal of politics and literature.<ref>Wayne E. Hall, "The 'Dublin University Magazine' and Isaac Butt, 1834-1838." ''Victorian Periodicals Review'' 20.2 (1987): 43-56.</ref>