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Home Rule Crisis (1912 - 1914) - Coggle Diagram
Home Rule Crisis (1912 - 1914)
The Parliament Act of 1911
Conservatives blocked Home Rule 1895 - 1906
1906 Liberals voted in
Conservative and Unionists supportive of each other
Until 1910; House of Lords could Veto
Home Rule a possibility in near future
Parliament Act of 1911 - Could only delay for two years.
The Third Home Rule Bill 1912
1912 Liberal Leader - Herbert Asquith - Put forward third HR Bill
Ireland to have its own parliament in Dublin for internal affairs
Home Rule Bills 1886 & 1893 - Vetoed
Westminster parliament would deal with external affairs
Could not be Vetoed - Set to become Law in 1914
Unionist Reaction to the Third Home Rule Bill
Organised protests and demonstrations against Home Rule
Ulster Solemn League and Covenant
signed by over 200,000 men on September 12th 1912.
Some Signed in blood
'use all means to defend conspiracy to setup Home Rule'
Opposed ''Home Rule is Rome Rule'
Founded Ulster Volunteer Force - January 1913
Paramilitary Resistance
Larne Gun Running - April 1914
35,000 guns & 5 million rounds of ammunition
Nationalist reactions to Unionist Opposition
Irish Volunteer Force setup November 1913
1914 - 100,000 members
Eoin MacNeill advised setup of paramilitary group
Included members of Sinn Fein, IRB, HomeRule Party
Howth Gun Running
Landed in Dublin via 'Asgard'
900 Rifles, 25,000 rounds
Both armed - Civil War?