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British Government and Irish Revolution 19101922
RONAN FANNING
In memory of
my English mother, Margaret Ella Bristow (19111996),
and my Irish father, Patrick Ronan Fanning (19011975)
1 Herbert Henry Asquith, prime minister 190816, in 1915
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2 Augustine Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland 190716
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3 Asquith and Birrell with Margot Asquith in Ireland, 1912
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4 Andrew Bonar Law and Edward Carson at an Ulster Unionist demonstration in Balmoral, Belfast, 1912
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5 The Ulster Volunteer Force parade at Balmoral, 1913
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6 John Redmond at a meeting of Irish National Volunteers, 1914
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7 Dublin in ruins after British artillery shelling during the 1916 rebellion
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8 An anti-conscription meeting at Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon, May 1918
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9 Ian Macpherson, chief secretary for Ireland 191920, and Lord French, Lord Lieutenant 191821
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12 King George V, with Queen Mary, at the first meeting of the Northern Ireland Parliament, 22 June 1921
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14 Prayer vigil of Sinn Fin supporters in July 1921 at Downing Street, where amon de Valera was meeting David Lloyd George
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15 Winston Churchill and Nevil Macready, general officer commanding the British forces in Ireland, arriving at Inverness Town Hall for an emergency cabinet meeting on Ireland, 21 September 1921
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16 British troops with their horses during the 1922 evacuation of what became the Irish Free State
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There is a path of fatality which pursues the relations between the two countries and makes them eternally at cross purposes.
David Lloyd George
House of Commons
22 December 1919
| 1906 | |
| January | Liberals win overall majority in general election. |
| 1907 | |
| 29Januar | Augustine Birrell appointed chief secretary for Ireland. |
| 21April | Inaugural meeting of Sinn Fin. |
| 3June | Collapse of Irish Council Bill in House of Commons. |
| 1908 | |
| 8 April | Herbert Henry Asquith appointed prime minister. |
| 1909 | |
| 30 November | House of Lords rejects David Lloyd Georges budget. |
| 10 December | Asquiths Albert Hall speech promising Irish home rule. |
| 1910 | |
| January | General election: nationalists hold balance |
| February | in House of Commons. |
| 21 February | Edward Carson elected leader of Irish Unionist MPs. |
| 6 May | Death of Edward VII; accession of George V. |
| 17 June | Constitutional Conference on powers of House of Lords. |
| 10 November | Collapse of Constitutional Conference. |
| December | General election: nationalists retain balance in Commons. |
| 1911 | |
| 18 August | Parliament Act: Lords power to reject bills cut to two years. |
| 23 September | Carson reveals plans for a provisional Ulster government. |
| 13 November | Andrew Bonar Law succeeds Arthur Balfour as leader of Conservative and Unionist Party. |
| 1912 | |
| 6 February | Lloyd George and Winston Churchill propose Ulsters exclusion from Home Rule Bill at cabinet. |
| 9 April | Bonar Law pledges British unionists support for resistance of Ulster unionists to Home Rule Bill at mass rally in Belfast. |
| 11 April | Asquith introduces Home Rule Bill in House of Commons. |
| 11 June | Liberal rebel MP moves amendment (defeated 18 June) excluding four north-eastern counties from Home Rule Bill. |
| 29 July | Bonar Laws inflammatory speech at Blenheim Palace. |
| 28 September | Ulster Day: unionists sign Covenant to resist home rule. |
| 1913 | |
| 16 January | Third reading of Home Rule Bill carried in Commons. |
| 30 January | Bill defeated in Lords. |
| 31 January | Formation of Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). |
| 7 July | Home Rule Bill again passes Commons. |
| 15 July | Home Rule Bill again rejected by Lords. |
| 11 August | George V urges Asquith to exclude Ulster. |
| 24 September | Ulster Unionist Council (UUC) approves plan for seizure of power by provisional government if Home Rule Bill enacted. |
| 14 October, | Asquiths and Bonar Laws secret meetings on exclusion. |
| 6 November | |
| 10 December | |
| 19 November | Inaugural meeting of Irish Citizen Army in Dublin. |
| 25 November | Inaugural meeting of Irish Volunteers in Dublin. |
| 4 December | Proclamation prohibiting arms importation into Ireland. |
| 16 December | Asquiths secret meetings on exclusion with Carson. |
| 2 January 1914 | |
| 1914 | |
| 22 January | Asquith informs cabinet of secret meetings. |
| 2 February | Asquith tells Redmond that he must offer exclusion. |
| 9 February | Cabinet defers decision on when offer will be made public. |
| 6 March | Asquith offers exclusion of Ulster for six years on moving second reading of Home Rule Bill for third time; Carson rejects. |
| 20 March | Curragh mutiny: 57 of 70 officers in 3rd Cavalry Brigade prefer dismissal to moving north to enforce home rule. |
| 2425 April | Ulster gun-running: 25,000 rifles for UVF landed without hindrance at Larne, Bangor and Donaghdee. |
| 12 May | Asquith announces amending bill to Home Rule Bill. |
| 16 June | John Redmond secures leadership of Irish Volunteers. |
| 23 June | Government of Ireland (Amendment) Bill providing for temporary exclusion by county option introduced in Lords. |
| 28 June | Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo. |
| 8 July | Amendment Bill amended in Lords to provide for permanent exclusion of all Ulster. |
| 10 July | Ulster provisional government meets in Belfast. |
| 2124 July | Buckingham Palace conference fails to agree on terms of Ulsters exclusion. |
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