England's Case Against Home Rule

England's Case Against Home Rule is a work by A. V. Dicey. The preface says an author who publishes a book having any reference to Irish affairs may, not unnaturally, be supposed either to possess some special knowledge of Ireland, or else to be the advocate of some new specific for the cure of Irish discontent. The preface says the writer's knowledge of Ireland is merely the knowledge, perhaps it were better to say the ignorance, of an educated Englishman.

The text names a second objection: that the habitual reference made throughout these pages to national interest as the test or standard of national policy has, it may be suggested, a touch of sordidness and selfishness. The text says the interest, welfare, or prosperity of England includes the maintenance of her honour and the performance of all her obligations. The text asks whether the army is to be a British army, with authority at the will of the Federal Government to enter every part of the new Union, or whether Ireland is to have an independent force of her own.