Ireland 1890-1922

Question 1

When was the parliament act?

Answer 1

1911

Question 2

When was the third Home Rule Bill introduced?

Answer 2

1912

Question 3

When and what was the Ulster Crisis?

Answer 3

1912-13

Ireland was on the brink of civil war over the issue of Home Rule

Question 4

What year was the third Home Rule Bill passed and why was it suspended?

Answer 4

1914

Because of the war

Question 5

When was the Easter rising?

Answer 5

1916

Question 6

When was the partition of Ireland?

Answer 6

1921

Question 7

In what year did the Irish National Party hold the balance of power in the House of Commons?

Answer 7

1910

Question 8

What is the Socialist Workers’ Republic?

Answer 8

A political system where government is based on the principle of a socialist state controlled by the working classes.

Question 9

What were Sinn Fein’s attitudes towards James Connolly’s Labour movement?

Answer 9

They were opposed to Connolly’s ideas of socialism and violent revolution.

Question 10

What did the Sinn Fein want and what were their ideas?

Answer 10

They wanted a system of peaceful resistance in which a voluntary parliament would be formed as a form of defiance against the British government.

Question 11

What were the impacts of the constitutional crisis?

Answer 11

The Liberals lost overall majority in the House of Commons. There was now a minority government and the Irish Nationalist MPs held most of the power. This ended up with the passing of the Parliament Act of 1911. This therefore put Irish Home Rule at the top of the political agenda.

Question 12

What were the terms of the Third Home Rule Bill 1912?

Answer 12

An Irish parliament with an elected House of Commons and a nominated upper chamber called the Senate with limited powers, especially restricted in financial affairs.
42 Irish MPs sat in Westminster
Ulster was to be included in the new Home Rule Parliament

Question 13

How did people react to the Third Home Rule Bill in 1912?

Answer 13

Redmond found it barely acceptable and could only be sold to the more extremist INP members as a starting point
To the Unionists it was entirely unacceptable for the same reason and because of the inclusion of Ulster.

Question 14

What was the Unionist resistance?

Answer 14

In September 1912, Carson drew up a ‘Solemn League and Covenant’.
People signed it saying that they would resist a home rule parliament in Ireland.
Paramilitary force set up in Ireland

Question 15

Who were the Black in Tans?

Answer 15

Irish war veterans who formed a private army

Question 16

What was the Curragh Mutiny?

Answer 16

It was an uprising in Dublin in March 1914 where the Ulster Volunteers were encouraged to take action to arm themselves. The Irish National Volunteers responded but the authorities intervened.
3 people died and nearly 40 were injured

Question 17

What was the impact of the First World War?

Answer 17

The crisis of the war overtook the Irish Question

Question 18

What was the Easter Rising?

Answer 18

It was in 1916. During the war, minority didn’t want to fight against Germany because they would be collaborating with Britain. Planned by Clarke, Pearse and Connolly. It was ill timed, ill planned and chaotically carried. Universally condemned by Irish people.

Question 19

What was the impact of the partition of Ireland?

Answer 19

International embarrassment for Britain over events in Ireland. Press coverage in Ireland. Strength of Ulster Protestant majority opinion. Strength of Roman Catholic majority opinion in the south.