Home Rule In Ireland At The Turn Of The 19th Century
Jamie Pressley
The Irish Home Rule Question
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the greatest question stressed among British and Irish politics was the issue of Irish home rule. Home rule is the principle or practice of selfgovernment in the internal affairs of a dependent country or other political unit. Self government for Ireland was the goal of the Irish Nationalists from 1870 to
1920. The Irish demanded that the governance of Ireland be returned from Westminster to a domestic parliament in Ireland since it had its own parliament up to 1800 when the Act of Union ended Irish representation at the parliament sitting at College Green in Dublin.
The idea of Home Rule dates from 1870 but it should be viewed as part of a longer …show more content…
In 1870,
Isaac Butt, a barrister and former Tory member of parliament, founded the Irish Home
Government Association. This movement combined a powerful cross section of landowners, tenant rights activists, and supporters and sympathisers of the failed Fenian uprising of 1867 to create a third way in Irish politics.
On three occasions, a Home Rule bill was introduced to the House of Commons. In 1886,
Prime Minister William E. Gladstone introduced the first Home Rule bill. However, this move split his governing Liberal Party and the bill was defeated in the House of Commons. In 1893, a second Home Rule bill managed to pass through the House of Commons but it was thrown out by the House of Lords. Again, in 1912, a Home Rule bill passed the House of Commons. The powers of the House of Lords had been reduced in 1911 and, under the new parliamentary mechanisms, the Lords could only delay rather than reject the bill. At the beginning of 1913, the
Liberal Lord Crewe, former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, opened the debates on the bill in the
Lords. The rejection of Home Rule by the Lords had already happened once which gave them
The Irish Home Rule Question
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the greatest question stressed among British and Irish politics was the issue of Irish home rule. Home rule is the principle or practice of selfgovernment in the internal affairs of a dependent country or other political unit. Self government for Ireland was the goal of the Irish Nationalists from 1870 to
1920. The Irish demanded that the governance of Ireland be returned from Westminster to a domestic parliament in Ireland since it had its own parliament up to 1800 when the Act of Union ended Irish representation at the parliament sitting at College Green in Dublin.
The idea of Home Rule dates from 1870 but it should be viewed as part of a longer …show more content…
In 1870,
Isaac Butt, a barrister and former Tory member of parliament, founded the Irish Home
Government Association. This movement combined a powerful cross section of landowners, tenant rights activists, and supporters and sympathisers of the failed Fenian uprising of 1867 to create a third way in Irish politics.
On three occasions, a Home Rule bill was introduced to the House of Commons. In 1886,
Prime Minister William E. Gladstone introduced the first Home Rule bill. However, this move split his governing Liberal Party and the bill was defeated in the House of Commons. In 1893, a second Home Rule bill managed to pass through the House of Commons but it was thrown out by the House of Lords. Again, in 1912, a Home Rule bill passed the House of Commons. The powers of the House of Lords had been reduced in 1911 and, under the new parliamentary mechanisms, the Lords could only delay rather than reject the bill. At the beginning of 1913, the
Liberal Lord Crewe, former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, opened the debates on the bill in the
Lords. The rejection of Home Rule by the Lords had already happened once which gave them