England 1900-1924

By sergio1997

  • 1906 Election

    Landslide victory Home Rule is not an issue
    Liberals: 397
    Conservative: 156
    INP:82
    Labour: 29

  • 1910 Election

    The Liberals lose a large amount of seats so rely on Labour and the INP to rule

  • Parliament Act

    Lord now only allowed to DELAY bills not veto them after three unsuccessful passes the law is made

  • Third Home Rule Bill

    Terms:
    Irish Parliament with limited powers especially over finacial issues
    forty two Irish MP's still to go to westminster
    Ulster was to be included in the new Home Rule Third Home Rule Bill introduced but soon sent back by the House of Lords. backed by the INP begrudgingly, the Unionist party rejected it because it still gave a wide range of control to westminster. Bonar Law opposed the bill because of its inclusion of Ulster.

  • Ulster Solemn League and Covenant

    signed by just under half a million Ulster men who pledged allegiance to the union. some even signed in blood. organised by James Craig

  • Ulster Volunteer Force Set Up

  • Home Rule Bill sent through but again rejected

  • Constitutional Conference

    after the Third Home Ruile bill was rejected a second time a Constitutional Conference was called to settle the matter. It Floundered as the participants could not agree on a single course of action the most that Edward Carson would accept was Home Rule excluding the whole of the nine counties of Ulster including three counties with Roman-Catholic majoritys. These were impossible terms for Redmond and the most that Asquith would concede was a limited degree of independence for Ulster

  • By this time the UVF has 100,000 members

  • Curragh Mutiny

    Secreaty State of War Jack Seely was appointed to quell rebellion in Ulster but allowed officers who had homes in Ulster to abstain from duties as a result 58 high ranking officers Resigned.

  • UVF Armaments

    Spurred by the Curragh Mutiny the UVF received a shipment of weapons picked up from the Ulster coast the authorities did not interfere and the UVF were now a highly militarised force

  • Asquith persuades Carson

    Carson accepts Home Rule on the idea that 6 out of 9 Counties of Ulster are excluded from Home rule but this breaks down

  • INP form Irish Republican Brotherhood with Eamon De Valera as their leader

  • INV Armaments

    soon aftert the UVF armed themselves the INV recieved a shipment of weapons landing near Dublin. this time however the authorites did interfere leading to the death of three people and injury of 40. although it was not as successful as the UVF lanfdings the INV were now armed

  • Asquith persuades Redmond

    Asquith persuades Redmond that 4 counties of Ulster with the biggest protestant majority should be left out of the Home Rule Bill.

  • Constitutional Conference at Buckingham Palace

    a constitutional conference was called
    Asquith and Lloyd-George - Government
    Redmond and John Dillon - INP
    Bonar Law and Lord Lansdowne - Unionist Party
    Carson and James Craig - Ulster Unionists
    the debate was to decide how much of Ulster was to be excluded and for how long however the discussions soon broke down the European crisis then struck leading Britain in war the debate was abandoned.

  • WW1 breaks out

  • 29,000 UVF memebrs volunteer to fight for Britain in the war

  • 80,000 Irish Volunteers Join the War

    howeveerr many protested against "Britain's War"
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    First World War

  • Redmond is offered a position in Asquith's coalition government but refuses

  • Easter Rising

    Led by Eoin Macneil, Patrick Pearce, Tom Clarke and Thomas Macdonaugh.with little arms or resources 1000 men marched on the General Post Office in Dublin and declared it a republic. however they gained no significant support.

  • Easter Rising Quelled

    the Rising ended with the unconditional surrender of the Irish as the 16,000 strong force of the British army and police crushed them. the main leaders were all executed while others who had been sentenced to death were let off including Eamon De Valera

  • Sinn Fein popularity rises

    because of the execution of the leaders of the Eatser rebellion they soon became martyrs for the cause this lead to a surge of popularity of the Sinn Fein party

  • Government bans meetings

    the government banned all meetings and made further arrests of Irish Nationalists

  • Government calls Irish Convention

    the government attempt sto settlke the matter but attitudes have hardened and previous INP supporters now support Sinn Fein a much more hardline party

  • Government acts against Sinn Fein

    the government arrests Sinn Fein leaders saying they are conspiring with Germany however this is not accepted in Ireland and Sinn Fein membership reches 250,000. De Valera is now President.

  • Goevrnement announces conscription

    the announcement of conscription caused outrage in Ireland and many Home Rule MP's left westminster and joined Sinn Fein

  • 1918 Election

    Saw large scale support for Sinn Fein who won 73 seats but refused to sit in Westminster but instead set up their own Irish Parliament with its own army and law courts.
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    Anglo-Irish War

    pitted 3000 IRA activists with 12,000 supporters against 40,000 British troops and the Royal Irish constabulary of 7000 to create the Black and Tans. the atrosities that followed were appaling especially those committed by the Black and Tans who torched entire communities in revenge. the news of continuing attrocities reached the Britishpeople who called for a truce and on the 11th of July a truce was called and negotiations began.

  • Lloyd-George proposes Government of Ireland Act

    Lloyd-George proposes act that would partition Ireland while both would have their own parliaments Westminster would still have contrtol over affairs of war, foreign policy, law and order and agriculture. this bill was dismissed by Sinn Fein but reluctantly accepted by the Unionists.

  • Sinn Fein's military wing the Irish Volunteers reformed into the Irish Republican Army

  • Anglo-Irish Treaty, Council of Ireland Set Up

    Llyo-George's cunning as a politician spawned the boundary commision which was useful as it meant that under the threat of Lloyd-George being replaced by the Hard-liner Andrew Bonar-Law Sinn Fein had dropped their opposition to partition. the treaty settled on 6th of december and the terms were:
    Southern Ireland would become a free state with its own parliament but would remain loyal to the British crown and empire
    the six provinces of Ulster formed Northern Ireland and remained with the UK