Irish Home Rule movement

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/irish-home-rule-movement

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the founding figure?Isaac Butt founded the Home Government Association in 1870
2. Who led the Irish Parliamentary Party that fought for Home Rule?Charles Stewart Parnell was a key leader who used tactics in Parliament to push for Home Rule.
3. Why did the first Home Rule Bill fail?It was defeated in the House of Commons because many Liberal Party members were worried it would break up the United Kingdom.

Legislative Autonomy: The power of a region or country to make its own laws independently.
Devolved Parliament: A parliament that has been granted specific powers by a central government.
Unionists: People who supported the union of Ireland with Great Britain.
Republicanism: A political ideology advocating for an independent republic, free from monarchical or foreign rule.