Irish Independence
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- Irish Independence
- A History of Struggles
- English Monarchs including Elizabeth I and James I had taken land from Irish Catholics and given it to Protestants.
- The English used violence to put down Catholic rebellions throughout the 17th century.
- The English passed laws in Ireland to place restrictions on Catholics- discrimination was used as a method of control.
- The Act of Union in 1800 abolished the status of Ireland as a separate kingdom.
- Many Catholics resented the loss of their independence
- The Great Famine of the 1840s led to over 1 million deaths and mass emigration.
- The British Government did very little to help with the Great Famine.
- Independent Ireland
- Charles Stuart Parnell and his Irish Parliamentary Party had been campaigning for Home Rule in Ireland since the 1870s.
- There were 2 attempts to pass the Home Rule Bill through the English Parliament (1886 and 1893) but they both failed.
- In 1905 the Irish republican Brotherhood re-formed with the aim of setting up an independent Irish republic.
- in 1905, Sinn Fein, the Nationalist party was also set up.
- In 1912 a Home Rule bill was passed to give Ireland its own government, Unionists (who wanted to remain with GB) opposed the bill.
- Further debates around the Home Rule Bill were delayed because of World War One.
- In 1916 the IRB arranged the Easter Rising to push for independence however, it failed and 14 of the leaders were executed.
- Partition (the splitting of the country into 2) happened in 1920 with separate parliaments for Northern and Southern Ireland.
- PM David Lloyd George agreed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921 which created an Independent Ireland (in the south) but left the Six Counties of Ulster (in the North) as part of the UK.
- Irish Nationalists opposed the split. The Irish Republican Army committed violent acts in protest which continued until the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
- A History of Struggles
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