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Thread #45911   Message #3789505
Posted By: Teribus
10-May-16 - 04:43 AM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Ah Jom so the Irish Home Rule Bill did not come back before Parliament in June/July or at anytime back in 1916 - what happened was that Lloyd George and Redmond had a chat about it. Only those on the Republican side had the right to self-determination did they Jom? How egalitarian.

Thompson the Irish Home Rule Bill 1914 was delayed at six month intervals throughout the course of the Great War and after during the War of Independence. That latter war caused the 1914 Bill to be repealed and the Government of Ireland Act 1920 brought in to replace it.

The Act was intended to establish separate Home Rule institutions within two new subdivisions of Ireland: the six north-eastern counties were to form "Northern Ireland", while the larger part of the country was to form "Southern Ireland". Both areas of Ireland were to continue as a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and provision was made for their future reunification under common Home Rule institutions.

Home Rule never took effect in Southern Ireland, due to the Irish War of Independence, which resulted instead in the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the establishment in 1922 of the Irish Free State."