IRISH HOME RULE BILL

There were four 'Irish Home Rule Bills' in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, to reverse parts of the Act of Union 1800. Only two were passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and one of these was never implemented. The bill of 1914 achieved by the Irish Parliamentary Party was opposed by Edward Carson who had helped to raise the Ulster Volunteer Force to prevent it applying for them, and was instrumental in organising of the Ulster Covenant.
Irish Unionist opposition to the bills were epitomised by the poem ''Ulster 1912'' by Rudyard Kipling. In Unionist circles, "Home Rule was Rome Rule". Nevertheless Southern Unionists sided with Irish Nationalists opposing their Northern counterparts during the 1917-18 Irish Convention in an attempt to help reach an understanding on the implementation of the temporarily suspended 1914 Act.
They were:

★ 1886: First Irish Home Rule Bill defeated in the British House of Commons and never introduced in the House of Lords.

★ 1893: Second Irish Home Rule Bill passed the House of Commons, but defeated in the House of Lords.

★ 1914: Third Irish Home Rule Act passed with Royal Assent but never came into force, due to the intervention of World War I (1914–18) and of the Easter Rising in Dublin (1916).

★ 1920: Fourth Irish Home Rule Act (replaced Third Act, passed and implemented as the Government of Ireland Act 1920)

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External links

★ Ulster Covenant - Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

★ History of the 1912 UVF

★ CAIN - University of Ulster Conflict Archive

★ ''Ulster, 1912'' (Kipling) at Words (etext library)