The British Constitution: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Loughlin

Author:Martin Loughlin
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

3. John Redmond, leader of the Irish party, and Home Rule, 1911

(p. 71) support in Ireland, to achieve through parliamentary means what it had been seeking since 1885 contributed to frustrations and splits. What followed in quick succession was the Easter Rising in 1916, the electoral success of Sinn Féin, the formation of the Dáil, the Irish War of Independence (1919–21), and then the Anglo-Irish Treaty by which Ireland—with the exception of the six counties of Northern Ireland—seceded from the UK. Consequently, the only part of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to be implemented was—ironically—home rule within the British state for the six counties of Northern Ireland which maintained a Protestant and Unionist majority.

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