Factors Contributing to Partition 1912-20

Question 1

3rd Home Rule bill

Answer 1

Legislate for internal affairs
After act of union 1807 which abolished an Irish parliament .
Lead to Home Rule Crisis

“Home Rule is Rome rule”

“Home Rule would be disastrous for the material well-being of Ulster”

Question 2

Solemn League and Covenant

Answer 2

Edward Carson

470,000 people signed it

“Home Rule is Rome rule”

Question 3

Formation of UVF

Answer 3

Ulster unionist council

Larne gun running: 250,000 rifles and 3 million rounds of ammunition

By 1914 100,000 members

Trained by ex British soldiers

Question 4

Irish Volunteers

Answer 4

Mid 1914 190,000 Members

Question 5

Englands difficulty is Irelands opportunity

Answer 5

“Englands difficulty is Irelands opportunity”

Question 6

Blood sacrifice

Answer 6

“from the graves of Irish men and women spring living nations”

Execution of 16 rebels

Question 7

Public reaction

Answer 7

16 rebels executed

“They went against his majesty the king”

“Washed away in a river of blood”

Question 8

Rise of Sinn Fein

Answer 8

Frongoch prison

“University of republicanism”

“Sinn féin rebellion”

By 1917 the second Sinn Féin party had nearly 250,000 members”

Question 9

First dáil

Answer 9

27 Sinn Féin MPs present at the first dáil.

Declaration of Independence

Message to re free nations of the world

Question 10

War of independance

Answer 10

IRA

Micheal Collins formed the squad out of 12 Dublin IRA members

Black and Tans : over 9500 men served in this force during WOI

Fighting reassured in blood Sunday which killed 14 innocent civilians.

Question 11

Government of Ireland act

Answer 11

Officially partitioned Ireland.

“Home rule all round” as Lloyd George called it

May election Sinn Fein won 124 seats while the unionists only won 4

“May prove to be the first step towards the end of strife”