The Third Home Rule Bill
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- Created on: 17-04-14 11:07
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- The Third Home Rule Bill April 1912
- Main features were...
- A two-chamber Irish Assembly with 40 members in the Senate and 164 members in the Lower House
- 42 Irish MPs would still sit in Westminster
- The Irish Assembly could impose new taxes and vary imperial taxes
- A Lord Lieutenant would replace the administrative powers of Dublin Castle
- Prime Minister Asquith- "The Unionist campaign is purely destructive in its objects Ireland is a nation, not two nations but one nation"
- The Unionist reaction...
- The Solemn League and Covenant
- Petition signed by Unionist leader, Sir Edward Carson and 450,000 others to show solidarity of the unionists
- It said: "We hereby pledge ourselves in solemn covenant..in using all means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a home rule parliament in Ireland"
- "All means which may be necessary" = "using violence if we have to"
- The Solemn League and Covenant
- Main features were...
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