Ireland

Question 0

In what year was the Ulster Crisis?

Answer 0

1912-13

Question 1

In what year was the Parliament Act?

Answer 1

1911

Question 2

In what year was the Easter Rising?

Answer 2

1916

Question 3

In what year was the partition of Ireland?

Answer 3

1921

Question 4

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

Answer 4

1910

Question 5

Between which years was the potato famine present in Ireland?

Answer 5

1945-51

Question 6

How many people starved to death due to the potato famine?

Answer 6

One million

Question 7

Why did the potato famine cause tension between GB and Ireland?

Answer 7

GB failed to take effective action and the anger it produced in Ireland was passed down in generations

Question 8

What was the central social problem in Ireland? Why?

Answer 8

Depressed economic condition of rural land farmers because they lived on land owned by English landlords with no tenancy agreements so had no security

Question 9

Who emerged shortly after the potato famine, demanding independence

Answer 9

The Irish Republican Brotherhood

Question 10

In what year were the First and Second Irish Home Rule bills but forward?

Answer 10

1886 and 1892

Question 11

In order to ‘kill home rule with kindness’, what did Lord Salisbury do?

Answer 11

Offered loans to farmers to buy out landlords and hoped hatred would go.

Question 12

When did the Ulster problems arise and what were they?

Answer 12

Started in 1886, Protestants rejects Home Rule

Question 13

Give four reasons as to why Britain rejected Home Rule

Answer 13

• Too many influential people in GB owned property in Ireland
• would disrupt British economy
• would disrupt British empire
• would compromise security in event of war

Question 14

A cultural revival occurred in Ireland in what years?

Answer 14

1895 - 1909

Question 15

Irish sports, literature, music and dance was brought about widely by which organisation?

Answer 15

The Gaelic League

Question 16

What did West Britonism encourage?

Answer 16

The idea that Ireland had no real separate identity but was merely a geographical area of Britain

Question 17

What year was the Land Act passed and what did it allow?

Answer 17

1903

Completed the transfer of land from landlords to tenants

Question 18

How did the INP react to the Land Act?

Answer 18

Split.
Some were happy to see the end of landlordism
Some thought they had lost their most potent political weapon

Question 19

What did both Campbell Bannerman and Asquith fear after the Land Act?

Answer 19

That home-rule would provoke the constitutional crisis which would jeopardise their votes

Question 20

Who was James Connolly?

Answer 20

He was motivated by Marxist belief
He believed Irish independence was essential in Ireland was ever to reach the stage at which a socialist state could be established

Question 21

How did Sinn Fein react to James Connolly?

Answer 21

They rejected his ideas of socialism and violence

Their leader, Arthur Griffin, wanted peaceful resistance

Question 22

Who was the Irish National party leader?

Answer 22

John Redmond

Question 23

When was the third home rule bill passed?

Answer 23

1912

Question 24

What are the terms for the third Home rule bill?

Answer 24

• Irish parliament with an elected House of Commons and the nominated at the chamber of the Senate with limited powers especially restricted in financial affairs
• 42 Irish MPs in Westminster
• Ulster was to be included

Question 25

How did Redmond feel about the terms of the third home rule bill?

Answer 25

He believed it was barely acceptable. He believed it could be sold to extreme INP members as a starting point for future progress.

Question 26

How did the unionists feel about the third home rule bill?

Answer 26

They believed it was entirely unacceptable for the same reason as Redmond. They also believed that the inclusion of Ulster was a mistake. Edward Carson, Ulster leader, would except home-rule excluding all the Ulster provinces which was nine counties

Question 27

What did Carson draw up in 1912 as a pledge against home rule? Was it successful?

Answer 27

“Solomon league and covenant “

It was successful in that it got 470,000 signatures

Question 28

What was the Curragh Mutiny of 1914?

Answer 28

That Irish army was largely Protestant and said the government worried that this would cause resignations. 58 officers resigned resigned. The Ulster army obtained more weapons and were now a threat. Equally national forces that the proceedings were less smooth - three dead