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Topic: Irish Home Rule Bill


  
  1800 2000 History Home Irish Rule
Irish Home Rule Bill - There were four Irish Home Rule Bills in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, to reverse parts of the Act of Union 1800.
Home Rule League - The Home Rule League, sometimes called the Home Rule Party, was a nineteenth and early twentieth century Irish political party which campaigned for home rule for the island of Ireland.
Long before Microsoft and Intel ruled the PC world, a disparate variety of home computers, from an unlikely array of suppliers, were engaging in a backyard shed by an eccentric inventor.
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  Irish Home Rule Bill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bill of 1914 was opposed by Edward Carson who had helped to raise the Ulster Volunteer Force to prevent it, and was instrumental in organising of the Ulster Covenant.
Irish Unionist opposition to the bills were epitomised by the poem Ulster 1912 by Rudyard Kipling.
In Unionist circles "Home Rule was Rome Rule".
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 Home rule - TheBestLinks.com - Devolution, Merge, United Kingdom, Scotland, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Home rule refers to a demand in parts of the United Kingdom that the constituent nations (notably Scotland, Wales and Ireland) be given self-government within the United Kingdom.
Home rule also refers analogously to the process and mechanisms of self-government by municipalities in many countries with respect to their immediately superior level of government (e.g., U.S. states, in which context see special legislation).
The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British politics at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
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 MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Events in Irish History
Irish Famine causes Irish population to decrease by 2 million due to death and emigration.
The Irish Home Rule Bill, which grants an independent parliament to Ireland, passes, though enactment is delayed until 1920.
Irish Civil War between the Free State government and Irish nationalists opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Home Rule @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
HOME RULE [Home Rule] in Irish and English history, political slogan adopted by Irish nationalists in the 19th cent.
The long agricultural depression beginning in 1873 increased economic stimulus for Home Rule, and under the leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell the movement gained support from the agricultural laborers and erstwhile members of the Fenian movement.
The Irish Council Bill of 1907, which was to establish a purely Irish body to direct the spending of Irish tax proceeds, failed to pass because of Irish dissatisfaction with the plan.
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 MSN Encarta - Irish Republican Army
The Bill was to give Ireland a form of devolved government from the United Kingdom government at Westminster.
The resultant Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 6, 1921, split the country into the Irish Free State in the south and a loyalist Northern Ireland in the north.
The anti-Treaty IRA, or the Irregulars, disagreed with the terms of the Treaty, which made the Irish Free State a dominion within the British Commonwealth; they wanted an independent republic and disputed the authority of the negotiators and the Dáil to conclude such a treaty that did not grant this status.
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 Irish FAQ: History [5/10]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Their slogan was "Home Rule is Rome Rule", referring to the fears they had of a Catholic dominated Ireland.
This was based on the old Home Rule Bill and formed the basis for the negotiations that were inevitable once the two sides had reached stalemate in the south.
Stormont, as the Northern Irish government and parliament were known, was suspended (later to be abolished) and direct rule from London was introduced by the British Prime Minister, Ted Heath.
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 ::Home Rule and Ireland::
Home Rule came to dominate domestic British politics in the era 1885 to the start of World War One.
Home Rule effectively started in Ireland in 1870 but in British politics, Gladstone was converted to it in the 1880's.
Home Rule was the name given to the process of allowing Ireland more say in how it was governed — freeing them from the rule of London and thus appeasing those in Ireland who wanted Ireland to have more home derived power.
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 Home Rule Act
The Home Rule movement led by Charles Parnell was an attempt to re-establish an Irish parliament to be responsible for internal affairs.
William Gladstone eventually became convinced of the need for Irish independence and in 1886 he made the first attempt to persuade Parliament to pass a Home Rule Bill.
The bill that proposed an Irish Parliament in Dublin was defeated in the House of Commons.
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 Irish Home Rule
Irish Nationalist2 leader John Redmond’s enthusiasm in 1910 for a Home Rule settlement belies the fact that in the decade following his statement, Home Rule would become one of the most controversial, complicated, and violently contested issues in Irish and British history.
The aristocrats’ picture of the Irish as a “semi-civilized, wholly-uneducated race of near barbarians, who were permitted to exist merely as an act of grace on the part of their English conquerors” rationalized the fact that the Lords could find no pretext to account for past atrocities in Ireland.
The Irish disillusionment with Home Rule began in 1912 with the proposal of the Third Home Rule Bill.
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 Printer Friendly Format - Edgware Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Charles Stuart Parnell was born at Avondale, County Wicklow, a gracious Georgian mansion, and, although a Protestant, advocated home rule for Ireland, becoming MP for Meath in 1875.
But he was such an important figure in Irish politics, Gladstone had him released to help in the fight for home rule.
In 1886, with the help of Parnell, Gladstone introduced an Irish Home Rule Bill, and although Parnell made strenuous efforts to keep the Irish party united, the vote was split and the bill defeated.
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 Home Rule: The Irish Free State and the Fourth Home Rule Bill — Infoplease.com
Home Rule: The Irish Free State and the Fourth Home Rule Bill — Infoplease.com
The continued British presence in Northern Ireland was abhorrent to Irish nationalists, but except for scattered IRA terrorism, the issue was dormant until Protestant repression led to revived militant nationalism among Northern Ireland's Catholics.
Home as work: the first woman's rights claims concerning wives' household labor, 1850-1880.
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 Home Rule
A new organisation, the Irish National League, switched the emphasis to home rule.
The struggle for home rule continued, and Gladstone introduced a second bill in 1893, only to see it defeated in the House of Lords.
A new Home Rule Bill, introduced in 1912, was rejected by the Lords, and became law in 1914.
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 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - William Ewart Gladstone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He also carried the Irish Land Act (1870) which provided for compensation for improvements to tenant farmers who were evicted by landowners.
Gladstone's last term as prime minister saw the passage of an Irish home rule bill (1892) in the Commons, which he first championed in his 1886 ministry, but the bill never made it through the Lords.
1870 - Home Rule Association is formed committed to the repeal of the Act of Union (1801) and home rule for Ireland.
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 BDO Dunwoody: The Complete Picture - July 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In certain situations, the debtor may be able to claim a deduction to offset this income inclusion or claim a reserve to have the tax payable on the income inclusion spread out over a number of years.
The debt parking rules, introduced in 1994, are intended to prevent a debtor from indefinitely avoiding the settlement of a debt by having the creditor sell the debt for a nominal amount to a friendly third party who has no intention of enforcing payment.
As a result, it was deemed to be settled for $1 at that time and the forgiven amount of $999,999 was applied to reduce XY Co's carry forward losses from $1,000,000 to $1.
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 INA/Irish History 1916 Rising
The strike ended in failure, but a workers' militia known as the Irish Citizen Army was formed under James Connolly's command which was to play an historic role in the struggle for Irish freedom.
The Gaelic League's championing the Irish language and the literary revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries cannot be underestimated as catalysts of revolutionary struggle.
In 1912, an Irish Home Rule bill was put forward but was predictably reacted to with outrage by pro-British Loyalists in the north and political pragmatics in the British parliament who saw the issue as little more than a way to gain and secure political power.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Edward Carson
Sir Edward Henry Carson (1854-1935) led the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force in opposing Home Rule plans for the whole of Ireland, eventually succeeding in ensuring Northern Ireland remained part of the union.
He was appointed Irish Solicitor General in 1892, the same year he was elected to the House of Commons.
The outbreak of war with Germany in August 1914 brought to a halt plans to enact Home Rule - it was eventually brought in in 1921.
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 Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irish News article
Bulmer Hobson, a Holywood-born Quaker, and city-based Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) member Denis McCullough, were the leading lights of the movement – though Co Tyrone had some key players too.
One of the reasons was that the Liberals were associated with being the prisoners of the Irish home rule party.
Home rule disappeared from the agenda until 1911 when, after the Parliament Act stripped the House of Lords of its right to veto Commons legislation indefinitely, a minority Liberal government did indeed do a deal with John Redmond's Irish nationalists and introduced a new Irish home rule bill.
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 SEARC'S WEB GUIDE - Margaret Cousins (1878-1954)
In 1910 Cousins campaigned for womens' suffrage in London and partook in a riot in Downing Street for which she was imprisoned in Holloway Gaol for a month, an experience she later described as 'a living death'.
Everywhere we explained that the Irish Women's Franchise League was not identical in its militant methods with the English suffragettes.
Those Irish politicians had no use for women citizens; they were sufficient for themselves and for the country.
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 Irish Home Rule - @forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Home Rule bills introduced by Prime Minister William E. Gladstone in 1885 and 1893 were defeated.
A third bill became law in 1914 but was militantly opposed by Ulster unionists and republicans in Ireland.
A system akin to home rule was established in the six counties of Ulster (Northern Ireland) in 1920.
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 SkyMinds.Net (Scottish Politics: Home Rule)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Irish people was rewarded for their violence when non-violent Scotland did not get any attention.
It was due to the pressure of the Home Rule Association created in 1870 in Dublin.
Scottish Home Rule: Bill debated in 1913 but process interrupted by World War I. After the war, a 2nd Scottish Home Rule Association was created for the first one became inactive.
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 Contemporary Review: The unfinished story of Irish Home Rule - Home Rule: An Irish History 1800-2000 - Book Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
'Home Rule is often seen as a discrete moment in modern Irish history.
This one deals with Home Rule in a consolidated outline of attempts to find a solution to the problems created by the Act of Union and the abolition of the Grattan Parliament of Ireland.
The conversion of Gladstone to Home Rule might have been effective if he had carried his Cabinet with him when he introduced his Home Rule Bill in 1886.
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 "The Pudsey Civic Society Irish Home Rule Archive"| Special Collections | University of Bradford
In the late nineteenth century the subject of home rule for Ireland was a controversial key issue in British politics, provoking much comment in the press.
The Home Rule party won 61 seats in the 1874 general election, but found itself isolated in the Westminster Parliament.
Gladstone returned to power in 1892 and passed the second Home Rule Bill through the House of Commons, but it was thrown out by the House of Lords.
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 BBC - History - Irish Home Rule crisis 1886   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Following the Potato Famine, a number of organisations were formed to agitate for Home Rule.
Despite efforts by the Gladstone government to allay tensions, in 1877, Charles Parnell became leader of the Irish Home Rule party and undertook a policy of deliberate obstruction in the House of Commons to stress the importance of the issue.
Gladstone introduced a Home rule bill the following April but it was defeated in June.
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 I will explain how Carson, Craig and the Ulster Unionists were opposed to the Home Rule bill, and how they felt they ...
I will explain how Carson, Craig and the Ulster Unionists were opposed to the Home Rule bill, and how they felt they were justified in using armed force if necessary, to get what they believe was their right to a British government for Ireland.
One of the main barriers to previous Home Rules was that of the House of Lords, but in 1911 the 'Parliament Act' effectively reduced their power to delay as opposed to outright rejection.
The leader of the I.P.P. (Redmond) at that time was in favour of the Home Rule and had stated that it was the Lords veto that came between Ireland and a successful Home Rule Bill.
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 WHKMLA : History of Ireland, 1867-1893
However, on both occasions, the bill, which was rejected by the conservatives, also alienated a substantial wing within Gladstone's own Liberal Party; as it turned out, the matter lead to the split-up of the party.
In 1890 Parnell was accused to have had a long-term affair with the wife of another member of parliament; this scandal lead to a rift in the Parnellite faction.
The number of Irish children attending primary schools rose from 322,000 in 1867 to 527,000 in 1893.
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 Why We Go to War - Sir Winston Churchill
Despite his inherited Tory views on Ireland, he wholeheartedly embraced the Liberal policy of Home Rule, moving the second reading of the Irish Home Rule Bill of 1912 and campaigning for it in the teeth of Unionist opposition.
At home there was one grievous, characteristic, romantic misreading of the political and public mood, when, in Edward VIII's abdication crisis of 1936, he vainly opposed Baldwin by a public championing of the King's cause.
At home, too, he came under fire in 1942: first in January after the reverses in Malaya and the Far East and later in June when Tobruk in North Africa fell to the Germans, but on neither occasion did his critics muster serious support in Parliament.
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 Irish FAQ: History
The Irish accepted partition with the vague promise that a Boundary Commission would adjust the borders, possibly gaining Fermanagh and Tyrone for the new Free State.
Opponents of the treaty were outraged not so much by partition as by the Oath of Allegiance (to the King) that members of the Dáil would have to swear.
One online resource worth mentioning is the CELT Irish Electronic Text archive at UCC, which has a variety of texts available for reading on the web or download.
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