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    • The Government of Ireland Act 1920 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act's long title was "An Act to provide for the better government of Ireland"; it is also known as the Fourth Home Rule Bill or (inaccurately) as the Fourth Home Rule Act and informally known as the Partition Act. The Act was intended to partition Ireland int… See more

    Long titleAn Act to provide for the better Government of Ireland.
    Citation10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 67
    Introduced byDavid Lloyd George (Commons)
    Background

    Various attempts had been made to give Ireland limited regional self-government, known as Home rule, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
    The First Home Rule Bill of 1886 was defeated in … See more

    Developments in Ireland

    During the Great War, Irish politics moved decisively in a different direction. Several events, including the Easter Rising of 1916, the subsequent reaction of the British Government and the Conscription Crisis of 1918, … See more

    Long's committee & Bill Approval

    A delay ensued because of the effective end of the First World War in November 1918, the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and the Treaty of Versailles that was signed in June 1919. Starting in September 1919, with the Bri… See more

     
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  1. In an attempt to reconcile the demands of unionists - the majority of whom lived in the north east of Ireland - to remain part of the UK and nationalists, most of whom by 1920 wanted full independence, the act split Ireland in two. Both Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland would remain part of the UK but would have their own devolved parliaments.
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    The Partition of Ireland (Irish: críochdheighilt na hÉireann) was the process by which the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK) divided Ireland into two self-governing polities: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. It was enacted on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Ireland
    The Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 31) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 9 August 1920 to address the collapse of the British civilian administration in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
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    Ireland, Government of, Act, 1920–1. The first major constitutional reform since the Act of Union 1800–1 resulted from the need for an alternative to the third Home Rule Bill, suspended 1914, which no longer had the backing of Southern Irish nationalist opinion.
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