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The Government of Ireland Bill 1886, [1] commonly known as the First Home Rule Bill, was the first major attempt made by a British government to enact a law creating home rule for part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Third Home Rule Bill introduced in 1912 was as in 1886 and 1893 ferociously opposed by Ulster unionists, for whom Home Rule was synonymous with Rome Rule as well as being indicative of economic decline and a threat to their cultural and industrial identity. [10]
Though his 1886 Home Rule Bill had caused him to lose power after members of his party left to form the Liberal Unionist Party, once re-appointed prime minister in August 1892 Gladstone committed himself to introducing a new Home Rule Bill for Ireland.
1886: First Irish Home Rule Bill was defeated in the House of Commons. 1893: Second Irish Home Rule Bill passed by the House of Commons, vetoed in the House of Lords. 1914: Third Irish Home Rule Bill passed to the statute books, temporarily suspended by intervention of World War I (1914–1918), finally following the Easter Rising in Dublin (1916).
Two Home Rule Bills (1886 and 1893) were introduced by Liberal Prime Minister Ewart Gladstone, but neither became law, mainly due to opposition from the House of Lords. The issue divided Ireland, for a significant unionist minority (largely based in Ulster ), opposed Home Rule, fearing that a Catholic-Nationalist parliament in Dublin would mean ...
In April 1886, Prime Minister William Gladstone introduced a Home Rule Bill. The Bill was defeated in the House of Commons on 8 June. The future Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Lord Randolph Churchill visited Belfast after the defeat of the Bill where he made speeches against the possibility of future Home Rule Bills. He was said to have ...
8 April – Gladstone introduces the Irish Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons. [1] During the debates on the Bill Financial Secretary to the Treasury H.H. Fowler states his support for the Bill which in his words would bring about a "real Union—not an act of Parliament Union—but a moral Union, a Union of heart and soul between two ...
Michael Davitt (25 March 1846 – 30 May 1906) was an Irish republican activist for a variety of causes, especially Home Rule and land reform. Following an eviction when he was four years old, Davitt's family migrated to England. He began his career as an organiser of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which resisted British rule in Ireland with ...