Timeline-Pursuit-of-Sovereignty.docx

Pursuit of Sovereignty & Impact of Partition 1912 – 1949 Solemn League & Covenant 3rd Home Rule Bill enters House of Commons 1912 1913 1914 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1943 1945 1946 1948 1949 1949 Strike & Lock-Out: Irish Citizen Army Irish National Volunteer Force formed Ulster Volunteers formed Volunteer Split ‘National’ & ‘Irish’ Government of Ireland Act (1914) Redmond’s Woodenbridge Speech Easter Rising: Proclamation of Irish Republic IRB, Irish Volunteers & Irish Citizen Army Martial Law & Executions Sinn Féin ‘Re-alignment’ Sinn Féin wins 73/105 seats in UK & Ireland Election (1918) Declaration of Independence 1st Dáil Eireann Irish War of Independence (1919 – 1921) Anglo-Irish Treaty Negotiations (October – December 6th 1921) Irish Civil War (1922 – 1923) Sinn Féin Split Irish Free State formed Free State wins Civil War. Cumann na nGaedhael forms 1st Free State Government under W.T. Cosgrave Pursuit of Sovereignty & Impact of Partition 1912 – 1949 1923 General Election Cumann na nGaedhael: 63 Sinn Féin (Abstaining): 44 Cumann na nGaedhael form 1st Irish Free State Government Pro-Treaty Army win Irish Civil War 1922 - 23 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1930 1931 1932 Irish Free State register Anglo-Irish Treaty with League of Nations Secretariat ‘Army Mutiny’ Courts of Justice Act (1924) Ministers & Secretaries Act (1924) Anglo-Irish Agreement (1925) Boundary Commission (1924 – 1925) Balfour Declaration (1926) Fianna Fáil follow a policy of ‘Abstentionism’ Fianna Fáil founded General Elections: June & September 1927 C.na G. FF SF June 47 44 5 Sept. 62 57 0 Electoral Amendment Act (1927) Assassination of Kevin O’Higgins Fianna Fáil enter Dáil Eireann Statute of Westminster (1931) Constitution Amendment Bill: Article 2A (1931) 1932 General Election C. na G. FF Labour 57 72 7