ADV INFO - Developments, Opposition and The Third Home Rule Bill

Question 1

what were there fears over

Answer 1

Rome rule

Question 2

what did unionists note

Answer 2

80 of the 86 nationalist MPs elected in 1885 were roman catholic

Question 3

what did the O’Shea scandal do

Answer 3

it gave the church an opportunity to reiterate its moral authority while the writings of nationalist leader Patrick Pearse (who edited the Gaelic League’s newspaper) emphasised the close links between Catholicism and Nationalism

Question 4

who were the rich landowners supported by

Answer 4

the academics of Trinity College Dublin, as well as a thriving working-class unionist movement in the city.

Question 5

where was unionism focused

Answer 5

ulster

Question 6

what helped strengthen the position of unionism in Belfast

Answer 6

the creation of a wider franchise

Question 7

how was ulster more prosperous

Answer 7

50% of Irish industrial jobs were in Ulster; of these, up to 40% were based in Belfast. Between 1850 and 1900, Belfast had the fastest economic growth of any city in the UK

Question 8

what was the rise in ulster unionism attributable to

Answer 8

the land acts of 1870 and 1881

Question 9

what reduced the influence of southern unionists

Answer 9

the disestablishment of the Anglican church

Question 10

who was the new face of unionism

Answer 10

MPs such as Tom Sloan, who served as Independent Unionist MP for South Belfast between 1902 and 1910

Question 11

what organisation encouraged Irish nationalism

Answer 11

the Gaelic athletic association

Question 12

what was founded to publish Irish nationalist propaganda

Answer 12

The founding of the Gaelic league in 1893 was an attempt by Eoin MacNeill

Question 13

who led the Easter Rising of 1916

Answer 13

Patrick Pearse

Question 14

who established Sinn Fein

Answer 14

Arthur Griffith

Question 15

what happened to Sinn Fein

Answer 15

they received limited support in their campaign for independence.

Question 16

who became PM in 1906

Answer 16

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Question 17

what majority did Campbell-Bannerman in 1906

Answer 17

270

Question 18

what was the priority of HCB’s government

Answer 18

an ambitious programme of social reform

Question 19

what was created in Ireland under HCB

Answer 19

a national university was created in order to educate Catholics, while the presbyterian Queen’s College Belfast became a full university

Question 20

what was passed in 1909

Answer 20

another land act

Question 21

what did the 1909 land act do

Answer 21

it introduced compulsory purchase by tenants in certain overpopulated areas

Question 22

what was passed in 1911

Answer 22

the parliament act

Question 23

what followed soon after the parliament act

Answer 23

the introduction of another home rule bill

Question 24

what was the issue with the liberal’s small majority

Answer 24

they were dependent on the parliamentary support of the Irish party

Question 25

how was the third home rule bill very similar to the second one?

Answer 25

• an Irish assembly would be established with 40 members in its upper house and 164 in its lower house
• this parliament would be able to raise taxes
• 42 Irish MPs would sit at Westminster and the Lord Lieutenant would play an important administrative role

Question 26

who strongly supported the third home rule bill

Answer 26

the Irish party under John Redmond

Question 27

who opposed the third home rule bill

Answer 27

the conservative party and the unionists due to ulster remaining part of a self-governing Ireland.

Question 28

what did Andrew Bonar Law say?

Answer 28

‘no length of resistance to which Ulster can go in which i should not be prepared to support them’

Question 29

what did the Ulster Unionists produce in 1912

Answer 29

a Solemn League and Covenant, outlining their opposition to home rule

Question 30

how many people signed the solemn league and covenant

Answer 30

450,000 people, including Edward Carson, leader of the Irish Unionists at Wesminsters

Question 31

what was founded in 1913

Answer 31

the UVF, the ulster volunteer force

Question 32

what was the UVF

Answer 32

a paramilitary group, which had recruited and trained up to 100,000 members by the summer of 1914

Question 33

what did the UVF audaciously do

Answer 33

it imported 35,000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition from Germany in April 1914. it was the Larne gun-running incident.

Question 34

what was formed in response to the UVF

Answer 34

the Irish volunteers were formed as a nationalist paramilitary force in November 1913

Question 35

what happened to the UVF by the outbreak of the world war

Answer 35

they had 160,000 members

Question 36

what did the UVF do during the war

Answer 36

they imported 25,000 rounds of ammunition and 1500 Mauser guns led to intervention by the army; this angered nationalists.

Question 37

what did the lords do in January 1913

Answer 37

they blocked the third home rule bill

Question 38

what happened in March 1914

Answer 38

the Curragh mutiny of March 1914

Question 39

what happened in the Curragh Mutiny

Answer 39

58 cavalry officers mutinied, claiming they would rather be sacked than take up arms against unionist soldiers

Question 40

what did Asquith draft proposals for

Answer 40

to allow Irish counties an opt-out system, where they could choose to be exempt from Home Rule.

Question 41

What did Carson say about the opt-out system

Answer 41

it was merely a ‘stay of execution’ for Ulster

Question 42

where was the opt-out system discussed

Answer 42

at the Buckingham Palace Conference

Question 43

what was the general agreement at the Buckingham Palace conference

Answer 43

the four most ‘protestant’ counties of Ulster should be excluded from Home Rule

Question 44

what eventually happened to the Buckingham palace conference

Answer 44

it broke up without agreement

Question 45

what happened two months after the conference broke up

Answer 45

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, and WW1 began.