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Exploring the background to Ireland’s Home Rule crisis

Why was Irish Home Rule such a contentious issue for successive governments?

Monument to Charles Stuart Parnell, in Dublin

Questions about governance structures for Ireland dominated British politics for much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—and for decades beyond. Although many things led to the Home Rule crisis, the key constitutional background can be traced to the passage of ‘An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland’ in 1800.

Edexcel paper 3, option 36.2 Ireland and the Union, c.1774–1923

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