... resiliently introduced a second Home Rule bill that was passed in the House of Commons but was blocked by the more conservative House of Lords. This promising outcome spurred on politician John Redmond to re-unite the Irish Party in 1900 and to pick up the late Parnell's legacy of Home Rule for Ireland. The election of 1905 brought with it a landslide ... be destroyed by the Ulster force and therefore decided that it was necessary that the southern Irish Catholics should have a military force in case of Unionist aggression. By astute negotiation, John Redmond and his Home Rule Party wer...

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... of atrocities poured in. These emphasised the barbaric nature of the Irish to the Protestants as the stories told of whole villages being massacred by Catholic rebels. By 1646, Sir John Temple believed that 300 000 Protestants had been slaughtered. This was extremely difficult to believe, not least because the entire population only consisted of about 100 000 Protestants at that ... did not rebel then the Government would destroy them with brutal force anyway. So, in spite of the movement being without it's main leaders, in May 1798 the rebellion went ahead. It turned out unsurprisingly...

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... (Irish Republican Brotherhood led by) who had been threatening to seek independence from Britain by an armed revolution. In the general election of 1909, a hung parliament paved the way for John Redwood (leader of Home Rule Party) to get his way and subsequently the Liberals were obligated to introduce the Third Home Rule Bill in 1912. This Bill was being discussed ... the fact that the British had few troops to spare, and although the organisation was terrible and there were limited arms Pearse, James Connolly, Eamon deValera and 1,500 rebels went ahead with the uprising on Easter Mond...

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