Lloyd George Negotiations

Question 1

when did Asquith return from Ireland?

Answer 1

18th May 1916

Question 2

what did Asquith decided after he returned from Ireland?

Answer 2

that a fresh political settlement was essential

Question 3

why did Asquith go to Ireland in May 1916

Answer 3

• after dillions emotional speech to Commons (11th May 1916)
• to stop the executions
• restore normality

Question 4

what would be a ‘succesful outcome’ of a political settlement be?

Answer 4

1. stregnthen IPP position @ expense radical separatists
2. deflect international criticism

Question 5

who was choosen to conduct the negotiations? and why?

Answer 5

• Lloyd George
• his irish experience and his brilliant negotiating skills

Question 6

when did the negotiations begin?

Answer 6

23rd May 1916

Question 7

what did LG intially tell Carson?

Answer 7

HR would be implemented immediatially for 26 counties with remaing 6 excluded

Question 8

what did LG write to Carson on 25th May?

Answer 8

6 county exclusion would be permanent

Question 9

LG negotiated with Redmond…

Answer 9

separatley

Question 10

what did LG tell Redmond the 6 county exclusion would be?

Answer 10

TEMPORARY

Question 11

why did Redmond agree to the 6 country exclusion?

Answer 11

• he believed it was TEMPORARY
• desperate attempt to:
  
  • secure HR
  • save IPP

Question 12

when and where did the unionist accept the 6 county exclusion and give Carson their unanimous support?

Answer 12

• 12th June 1916
• @ 2nd UCC meeting

Question 13

why were the Unionist triumphant at the 6 county exclusion?

Answer 13

• it had gave them what they had demanded since 1911
• it matched their maximum demand @Buckingham Palace Conference 1914

Question 14

what did Carson say about the ‘Unioinist Triumph’?

Answer 14

“we have offered to us voluntarily all that civil war would give”

Question 15

what was the positive nationalist reaction in the north to the 6 county exclusion?

Answer 15

23rd June Ulster Nationalist Conference voted in favour after Devlin’s passionate plea of temporary exclusion.

Question 16

what was the negative nationalist reaction in the North?

Answer 16

a considerbale anti-exclusionist camp (T,F,Dc) became ortganised through the Irish National League

Question 17

what was the significance of this anti-exclusionist group?

Answer 17

• gave a focus for opposistion
• helped undermine the IPP in ulster

Question 18

why did the neogtiations fail?

Answer 18

an opposition campaign mounted by Walter Long and Lord Landsdowne

Question 19

who were Walter Long and Lord Landsdown?

Answer 19

• southern unioinists
• memebers in the conservative coalition gov

Question 20

what did they reveal?

Answer 20

that permanent exlusion had been offered to Carson.

Question 21

what did Redmond realise?

Answer 21

that he had been deliberately decieved

Question 22

what was the impact of the neogtaiations?

Answer 22

• disatrous blow to the IPP and personal disaster for Redmond.
• redmond had been outmanouvered by Unionists and betrayed by the British Government.

Question 23

what did Dillion say about the impact of the negotiations on redmond?

Answer 23

'’trust in Redmond is dead as far as the mass of the population is concerened’’

Question 24

what did the historian Gywnn say about the impact of the negotiations on the IPP?

Answer 24

'’the failure of the negotations caused fatal damage to the IPP’’