Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Home
Rule
- Irish Parliamentary Party
- Led by John Redmond
- Won over 80 seats in 1910 elections
- Supported Liberal PM Herbert Asquith
- First two bills vetoed in 1886 and 1893
- Third Home Rule Bill:
11 April 1912
- Ireland would have its own parliament
- Irish government would deal with Irish affairs
- Delayed for two years
- Due to arrive in 1914
- Suspended when World War I broke out
- After WWI people
were fed up with HR
- Unionists were very opposed
- Campaign began in 1870
- Unionist Opposition
- Edward Carson
- Wanted to keep all of Ireland part of Britain
- Southern unionist
- Suggested that Ireland might
partition if HR was introduced
- James Craig
- Northern unionist
- Wanted to prevent HR in Ulster
- His Ulster-based view won out
- Ulster Solemn League and Covenant 1912
- Ulster Volunteer Force 1913
- Irish Volunteers formed in
response to UVF
- Sinn Féin
- Wanted an Irish republic
- Formed by Arthur Griffith
- Led by Éamon de Valera from 1917
- Won majority of votes in 1918 election
- Completely wiped out HR party
- Irish people now want a republic instead of Home Rule
- Largest party in Ireland