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PM Asquith's poor handling of the Irish Home Rule Crisis, 1910-1914. - page 5
Keywords: ireland home rule crisis 1910 1914 20th century asquith redmond carson bonar law liberals conservatives ulster unionists unionism irish parliamentary party
By exploiit on 19/06/2010
Level: A Level (Year 13)
Page Number: 5 of 5 pages: 1 2 3 4 5would kill the bill, claiming in one speech that “if Ulster succeeds, Home Rule is dead”. The Liberals opposed partition in fear that it would alienate the IPP and therefore destroy their majority in the Commons and Carson hoped this would be to his advantage in the negotiations. However, he was careful about this tactic and was aware that by accepting the Liberal proposals he would be alienating Southern Unionists and so avoided this by dragging out the process and contributing to the crisis.
It is also important to note that the threat of impending war on an international scale was an important factor at the peak of the crisis. Although the Home Rule Crisis was of great significance, World War I took precedence in the eyes of the British government and so Home Rule was passed into law but failed to take effect and was post-poned indefinitely. In hindsight, this was very significant due to the consequential anger within the Nationalist community in Ireland and the dissident action it would later go on to influence.
Therefore, it is clear that there were a number of factors which contributed to the difficulties faced during the Home Rule Crisis of 1910-1914. Asquith and the Liberal government were blatantly naïve in their approach to the opposition, and the fact that they underestimated the strength of Unionists, Conservatives and in some cases dissident Nationalists, was clearly one of the key reasons for the escalating difficulties. However, it would be one-sided to ignore the role played by the underlying divisions in the Liberal party, the Nationalist response to the crisis and the threat of international war in the crisis.
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