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Landslide victory Home Rule is not an issue
Liberals: 397
Conservative: 156
INP:82
Labour: 29 -
The Liberals lose a large amount of seats so rely on Labour and the INP to rule
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Lord now only allowed to DELAY bills not veto them after three unsuccessful passes the law is made
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Terms:
Irish Parliament with limited powers especially over finacial issues
forty two Irish MP's still to go to westminster
Ulster was to be included in the new Home Rule Third Home Rule Bill introduced but soon sent back by the House of Lords. backed by the INP begrudgingly, the Unionist party rejected it because it still gave a wide range of control to westminster. Bonar Law opposed the bill because of its inclusion of Ulster. -
signed by just under half a million Ulster men who pledged allegiance to the union. some even signed in blood. organised by James Craig
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after the Third Home Ruile bill was rejected a second time a Constitutional Conference was called to settle the matter. It Floundered as the participants could not agree on a single course of action the most that Edward Carson would accept was Home Rule excluding the whole of the nine counties of Ulster including three counties with Roman-Catholic majoritys. These were impossible terms for Redmond and the most that Asquith would concede was a limited degree of independence for Ulster
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Secreaty State of War Jack Seely was appointed to quell rebellion in Ulster but allowed officers who had homes in Ulster to abstain from duties as a result 58 high ranking officers Resigned.
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Spurred by the Curragh Mutiny the UVF received a shipment of weapons picked up from the Ulster coast the authorities did not interfere and the UVF were now a highly militarised force
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Carson accepts Home Rule on the idea that 6 out of 9 Counties of Ulster are excluded from Home rule but this breaks down
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soon aftert the UVF armed themselves the INV recieved a shipment of weapons landing near Dublin. this time however the authorites did interfere leading to the death of three people and injury of 40. although it was not as successful as the UVF lanfdings the INV were now armed
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Asquith persuades Redmond that 4 counties of Ulster with the biggest protestant majority should be left out of the Home Rule Bill.
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a constitutional conference was called
Asquith and Lloyd-George - Government
Redmond and John Dillon - INP
Bonar Law and Lord Lansdowne - Unionist Party
Carson and James Craig - Ulster Unionists
the debate was to decide how much of Ulster was to be excluded and for how long however the discussions soon broke down the European crisis then struck leading Britain in war the debate was abandoned. -
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howeveerr many protested against "Britain's War"
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Led by Eoin Macneil, Patrick Pearce, Tom Clarke and Thomas Macdonaugh.with little arms or resources 1000 men marched on the General Post Office in Dublin and declared it a republic. however they gained no significant support.
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the Rising ended with the unconditional surrender of the Irish as the 16,000 strong force of the British army and police crushed them. the main leaders were all executed while others who had been sentenced to death were let off including Eamon De Valera
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because of the execution of the leaders of the Eatser rebellion they soon became martyrs for the cause this lead to a surge of popularity of the Sinn Fein party
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the government banned all meetings and made further arrests of Irish Nationalists
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the government attempt sto settlke the matter but attitudes have hardened and previous INP supporters now support Sinn Fein a much more hardline party
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the government arrests Sinn Fein leaders saying they are conspiring with Germany however this is not accepted in Ireland and Sinn Fein membership reches 250,000. De Valera is now President.
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the announcement of conscription caused outrage in Ireland and many Home Rule MP's left westminster and joined Sinn Fein
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Saw large scale support for Sinn Fein who won 73 seats but refused to sit in Westminster but instead set up their own Irish Parliament with its own army and law courts.
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pitted 3000 IRA activists with 12,000 supporters against 40,000 British troops and the Royal Irish constabulary of 7000 to create the Black and Tans. the atrosities that followed were appaling especially those committed by the Black and Tans who torched entire communities in revenge. the news of continuing attrocities reached the Britishpeople who called for a truce and on the 11th of July a truce was called and negotiations began.
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Lloyd-George proposes act that would partition Ireland while both would have their own parliaments Westminster would still have contrtol over affairs of war, foreign policy, law and order and agriculture. this bill was dismissed by Sinn Fein but reluctantly accepted by the Unionists.
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Llyo-George's cunning as a politician spawned the boundary commision which was useful as it meant that under the threat of Lloyd-George being replaced by the Hard-liner Andrew Bonar-Law Sinn Fein had dropped their opposition to partition. the treaty settled on 6th of december and the terms were:
Southern Ireland would become a free state with its own parliament but would remain loyal to the British crown and empire
the six provinces of Ulster formed Northern Ireland and remained with the UK