What was the phrase used to espouse a higher level of nationalism than the Irish's dominant 1870 political movement?
Irish Home Rule movement The Irish Home Rule movement was a movement that agitated for self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was the dominant political movement of Irish nationalism from 1870 to the end of World War I.
Irish republican legitimism A concept within Irish republicanism, Irish republican legitimatism denies the legitimacy of the polities of Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and posits that the pre-partition Irish Republic continues to exist. The concept shapes aspects of, but is not synonymous with, abstentionism.