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1
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How many seats did the Liberal Party win in the 1906 election?

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399

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2
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What was the seat number and vote percentage won by the IPP in 1906?

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82 seats; 0.7% vote

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3
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Who were the liberal party leaders between 1899-1921?

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  • Henry Campbell Bannerman (HCB)
  • Herbert Asquith
  • David Lloyd George
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4
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When was the People’s Budget introduced?

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1909

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5
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What socialist legislations were introduced by the Liberals towards the end of the period?

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  • Free School Meals
  • Old Age Pensions Act
  • National insurance Act
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6
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Who said: “This is a war budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness”

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David Lloyd George

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7
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How many seats did the Liberals win in the January 1910 election?

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274

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8
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How many seats did the Liberals win in the December 1910 election?

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272

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9
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When did the People’s Budget finally pass through the Commons AND Lords?

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1910

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10
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What is the date of the Parliament Act?

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1911

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11
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Where did Asquith make a speech pledging support for Home Rule?

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Albert Hall

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12
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In what year was a Third Home Rule Bill first introduced into the Commons?

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1912

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13
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How many MPs would sit at Westminster in the terms of the Third Home Rule Bill?

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42

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14
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Who called the Liberal/IPP pact over the Lords and Home Rule “A corrupt bargain”?

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Andrew Bonar Law

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In what year and month did the Ulster Unionist Council open an armament fund?

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November 1910

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16
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How many people attended an anti-Home Rule demonstration in September 1911?

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50,000

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17
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How many people attended an anti-Home Rule demonstration in April 1912?

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100,000

18
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Mechanics for the anti-Home Rule demonstration in April 1912?

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  • It had the biggest Union flag ever made
  • A “Covenant Day” was proclaimed by the Ulster Unionist Council
  • 70 British Conservative MPs attended the meeting
19
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In July 1912 Bonar Law stated that “I can imagine no length of resistance to which Ulster can go in which I should not be prepared to support them”. Where did he make that speech?

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Blenheim Palace

20
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Who said it?: “We welcome, aye we love every individual Irishman, even though opposed to us”

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Edward Carson

21
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Which key figure fought in the Boer War before going into Irish politics?

A

James Craig

22
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Which key figure trained as a lawyer at Trinity College and acted as a Crown Prosecutor before going into Irish politics?

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Edward Carson

23
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Roughly how many people signed the Covenant that pledged to use “all means necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland”?

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500,000

24
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When was the UVF formed?

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January 1913

25
Q

Who said it in a letter to his wife?: “Home Rule launched. Went off quite well but no enthusiasm”.

A

David Lloyd George

26
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Was permanent exclusion a term of the Amending Bill offered in March 1914?

A

No

27
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Was county option for exclusion from Home Rule a term of the Amending Bill offered in March 1914?

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Yes

28
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Who called the Amending Bill a “stay of execution”?

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Andrew Bonar Law

29
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Who was the Commander in Chief for the army in Ireland who was responsible for the so-called Curragh Mutiny?

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Sir Arthur Paget

30
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How many rifles were obtained in the Larne Gunrunning incident?

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35,000

31
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How many rounds of ammunition were obtained at Larne?

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5 million

32
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Name the two counties being argued over at the Buckingham Palace conference in terms of them being excluded from Home Rule

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  • Fermanagh
  • Tyrone
33
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In which month of 1914 did Britain enter the First World War?

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August

34
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In which month of 1914 did the Third Home Rule bill get passed and immediately suspended?

A

September

35
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Who pledged Irish troops “wherever the firing line extended”?

A

John Redmond

36
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How many Irish nationalist troops decided not to fight in the First World War, instead becoming a new formation of the “Irish Volunteers” in 1914?

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11,000

37
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Which nationalist leader founded a newspaper called “Workers Republic”

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James Connolly

38
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Which nationalist leaders co-founded the Irish Labour Party?

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  • James Connolly
  • James Larkin

(Connolly and Larkin, duo)

39
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Which nationalist leader founded the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union in 1909?

A

James Larkin

40
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Which early 20th century nationalist leader used the tactic of refusing to take seats in Westminster?

A

Arthur Griffith

41
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Which nationalist leader called the Third Home Rule Act of 1914 a “triumph”?

A

John Redmond

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