partition of ireland

Question 1

what does ‘IRA’ stand for?

Answer 1

Irish Republic Army

Question 2

after a violent guerrilla what did the IRA and the British government decide in 1921?

Answer 2

to give home rule to Ireland.

Question 3

Ireland was partitioned: Northern Ireland remained part of the UK. What did the rest of Ireland become and what did it have?

Answer 3

it became the Irish Free State with its own parliment.

Question 4

Protestant unionists were happy that Northern Ireland remained part of Britain but what was the Catholic Nationalists’ point of view?

Answer 4

they wanted to Ireland re-united