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  Devolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Devolution or home rule is the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a state to government at national, regional or local level.
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 century.
The home rule demands of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century differed from earlier demands for Repeal by Daniel O'Connell in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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 Home Rule Act 1914 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was the first Home Rule Bill to have been enacted, its enactment having been made possible by the curtailment of the powers of the House of Lords, which had blocked the two previous Home Rule Bills.
It was eventually replaced by a Fourth Home Rule Act, the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which gave Home Rule to six counties in the northeast (Northern Ireland) and (nominally) to twenty-six counties in the west and south (so-called "Southern Ireland").
Under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty a provisional parliament, the Third Dáil, was elected on the 16 June 1922.
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 Irish Government Bill 1886 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The First Home Rule Bill (official name: Irish Government Bill, 1886) was the first major attempt made by a British parliament to enact a law creating home rule for part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Bill, like his Irish Land Act 1870, was very much the work of Gladstone, who excluded both the Irish MPs and his own ministers from participation in the drafting.
Historians have suggested that the Bill was fatally flawed by the secretive manner of its drafting, with Gladstone alienating Liberal figures like Joseph Chamberlain who along with a colleague resigned in protest from the ministry, while producing a Bill that privately by the Irish as badly drafted and deeply flawed.
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 ipedia.com: Home rule Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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).
Home Rule is not however comparable with federalism.
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 Home Rule, Irish - ninemsn Encarta
A Second Home Rule bill was introduced by Gladstone in 1892, and though successful in the House of Commons it was rejected by the unionist-dominated House of Lords.
The Third Home Rule bill was introduced on April 11, 1912 by the Liberal prime minister Asquith.
Negotiations took place between John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Parliamentary party, and Sir Edward Carson, leader of the Unionist party, over the implementation of a home rule settlement for Ireland and the issue of partition for Ulster and its continuation within the Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland)
Who were the first Irish to land on the American continent and the time of their arrival are perhaps matters of conjecture rather than of historical proof; but that the Irish were there almost at the beginning of the colonial era is a fact support by historical records.
Later, in May, 1879, the Irish Catholic Colonization Association of the United States was established at Chicago, under the auspices of various archbishops, with the co-operation of eminent Irish Catholic laymen, and during the ensuing decade it assisted many immigrants to find homes in the Western states.
While men of the Irish race were engaged on the battlefield in defence of their adopted country, accompanied and encouraged by the clergy, the religious orders of women within the Church were no less diligent in nursing the sick and wounded in camps and hospitals.
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 Home Rule. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
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.
The six counties of Northern Ireland (see Ireland, Northern) remained part of the United Kingdom, their government established under the provisions of the Fourth Home Rule Bill of 1920, which was rendered void in the South by the establishment of the Irish Free State.
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Because the Home rule period spanned nearly thirty years and because the fight was mainly fought in the British parliament at Westminster it is necessary as I go along to sketch in the various British political events which were the background to the home rule story.
The campaign was threefold, with the Conservatives concentrating on the unfairness of’ the bill’s provision in regard to England and the English taxpayer; the Liberal Unionists on the danger to the empire and prestige of the United Kingdom; while the Ulster Unionists emphasised the danger to Irish loyalists.
Home Rule had not been an issue at the election, and with such a majority it seemed unlikely to figure prominently in the next parliament.
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 Devolution - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Devolution or Home rule is the pooling of powers from central government to government at regional or local level.
This demand led to the eventual introduction of four Home Rule Bills, of which only two, most notably the Government of Ireland Act 1920 (which created the parliaments of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland -- the latter state did not in reality function and was replaced by the Irish Free State), were enacted.
Whereas home rule meant a subsidiary parliament under Westminster, repeal meant the repeal of the 1801 Act of Union and the creation of an entirely independent Irish state, separated from the United Kingdom, with only a shared monarch joining them both.
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 Irish FAQ: History
In 1912, a third Irish Home Rule Bill was introduced to the British House of Commons, where it would pass its third and final reading in January, 1913.
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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 The Home Rule Crisis 1910 - 1914   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He believed that Ireland would be worse off with Home Rule and hoped that opposition in Ulster would kill the bill for the whole of the country.
A propaganda campaign began in Britain to convince the electorate that Home Rule was unjust and that Ulster Unionists were serious in their determination to remain part of the UK.
The same month the Home Rule bill passed the Commons and it was due to become law in September.
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 II. On the Home Rule Bill by Charles Stewart Parnell. Ireland (1775-1902). Vol. VI. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. ...
On the Home Rule Bill by Charles Stewart Parnell.
Born in 1846, died in 1891; elected to Parliament in 1875; President of the Irish Land League in 1879; visited the United States in 1879; imprisoned under the Coercion Act, 1881; in alliance with Gladstone for Home Rule in 1886; recovered five thousand pounds damages from the London Times for libel in 1889.
You may depend upon it that in an Irish Legislature Ulster, with such representatives as she now has in the Imperial Parliament, would be able to successfully resist the realization of any idea which the Roman Catholic hierarchy might entertain with regard to obtaining an undue control of Irish education.
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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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 Third Home Rule Bill (1912-13)
Irish Estimates are fixed for Wednesday, and we could then draw Lloyd George on his Land policy, which is a serious matter.
Last year he did this on the Finance Bill, which I thought wrong, because a taxing measure should not be made one of "Appropriation." I argued that it was wrong to use the Appropriation Bill as an enacting measure to define the terms of a loan.
On the Home Rule Bill a crisis arose on the 11th November, 1912, when Sir Frederick Banbury, in a "snap" division, defeated the Government on a financial resolution.
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 Home Rule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Home Rule: The Second Home Rule Bill - The Second Home Rule Bill In 1893 the Liberals passed the Second Home Rule Bill in the House of...
Home Rule: Origins of the Home Rule Movement - Origins of the Home Rule Movement A basic theme in the history of Ireland through the centuries of...
Home Rule: The First Home Rule Bill - The First Home Rule Bill In 1886, William Gladstone committed the Liberal party to Home Rule.
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 British Isles, 1900 A.D.-present | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1913, when the Third Irish Home Rule Bill is rejected by House of Lords, civil war is threatened in Ireland.
In 1916, the Easter Rising in Dublin is a failed attempt by an armed Irish force of between 1,000 and 1,500 to seize the city and destroy British rule.
In 1921, the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland are formed, although this division hardly resolves the political conflict over British involvement in Ireland.
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 Home Billing
There were four Irish Home Rule Bills in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, to reverse parts of the 1801 Act of Union.
Accuracy in terms of the names of Acts and Bills is a major problem because, with with very rare exceptions, ''very very'' few Acts and Bills are known even by their correct short title, let alone official long title.
Later in 1886 he was an opponent of the Home Rule Bill.
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 First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Most Popular War in History - Setting the Scene
As George Dangerfield points out, it was the first time since the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 (when James II was forced to abdicate) that the Government found itself unable to rely on the Army in a matter of national security.
It seems to have resembled the Austria-Hungary arrangement, and it is interesting to note from the point of view of preconceptions that the ultra-reactionary empire based in Vienna was able to negotiate a Home Rule agreement, whereas we could not.
By the third attempt the principal opposition was the Ulster Protestants who through historical links with the Conservative Party (then known as the Conservative and Unionist Party, incorporating the Ulster Protestants) were mounting an intense lobbying campaign backed by the threat of force.
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 Home Rule: The Irish Free State and the Fourth Home Rule Bill
Home Rule: The Irish Free State and the Fourth Home Rule Bill
Home as work: the first woman's rights claims concerning wives' household labor, 1850-1880.
Closer to home: Long relegated to the margins, foreign news has experienced a modest resurgence since September 11.
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 CBC News Indepth: Northern Ireland
Finally, in 1914, Home Rule was enacted (though Ulster was to be excepted for six years), just in time for the First World War to cause it to be suspended.
In September 1913 the Irish poet William Butler Yeats chastises his countrymen for their lack of nationalist passion.
In 1920 a new Home Rule bill tried again to reach a compromise: separate parliaments, one for Protestant Ulster, one for the rest of Ireland.
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 Britannica India: Biographies
Journalist and Irish nationalist, principal founder of the powerful Sinn Féin ("We Ourselves") movement, vice president of the Irish Republic from January 21, 1919, and its president from January 10, 1922, until his death.
Irishmen were to refuse to pay British taxes, while Irish members of the Commons were to stay away from Westminster and to sit in Ireland as a national council.
In the fall of 1921 Griffith unwillingly went to London as the leader of the Irish delegation to the self-government treaty conference.
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 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
At the time of her birth, She was third in the line of succession to the crown, behind her father and her uncle, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII.
The Royal palace in Edinburgh, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, once home to Scottish kings and Queens Like Mary, Queen of Scots, is now regularly used again, with at least one member of the Royal Family (often the Prince of Wales or Princess Royal) in residence.
Though some of the traditional rules for dealing with the Monarch have been relaxed during her reign (bowing is no longer required, for example) other forms of close personal interaction, such as touching, are still discouraged.
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 Irish FAQ: History [5/10]
From: irish-faq@pobox.com (Irish FAQ Maintainer) Sender: cpm@enteract.com (Christian Murphy) Newsgroups: soc.culture.irish Subject: Irish FAQ: History [5/10] Summary: of a summary of a summary Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 02:10:02 GMT Message-ID: Archive-name: cultures/irish-faq/part05 Last-modified: 17 Jul 99 Posting-Frequency: monthly URL: http://www.enteract.com/~cpm/irish-faq/ Part five of ten.
This was blocked by the House of Lords, but they could only delay bills since the Parliament Act in 1911.
It declared itself a Republic in 1947.) The Boundary Commission that was set up as part of the Treaty to realign of the border between Northern Ireland and the Free State did not meet until 1924.
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 A Dictionary of World History: Home Rule, Irish @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Home Rule, Irish A movement for the re-establishment of an Irish parliament responsible for internal affairs.
An association, founded in 1870 by Isaac Butt, sought to repeal the Act of UNION (1800) between Britain and Ireland.
The third Bill (1912), introduced by Asquith, was passed by Parliament but its operation was postponed when war broke out in Europe...
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 World Encyclopedia: Home Rule, Irish @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Home Rule, Irish Movement to gain Irish legislative independence from the British Parliament in the 19th century.
In the 1870s, Isaac Butt began the Home Rule League.
His successor, Charles Parnell, won Gladstone's support, but the first Home Rule Bill of 1886 split the Liberal Party and sent Liberal Unionists into the arms of the Conservative Party.
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 Whopper of the Week: John Kerry. By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He said that he knew of no Irish ancestry and that he had always tried to correct misstatements whenever he learned about them.
Still, it's striking that the Globe was able to find two separate instances where Kerry's own staff thought he was Irish and a third where Kerry's campaign invited the public to believe he was Irish.
He was at a state convention attended by people with all sorts of backgrounds.) And it is striking that Kerry has never attempted to correct various references to his Irish ancestry that have appeared in the Globe, which is the most important newspaper in his state.
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Two people were killed in the explosion, and a third died later in the hospital.
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