Home Rule passes — and is shelved for the war
1914 · Event
Irish Home Rule finally reaches the statute book — suspended for the duration of the European war, with Ulster's exclusion left unresolved. Redmond urges Irishmen to enlist to earn it; 200,000 do. By the war's end, the party and the promise are both dead.
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