In the years preceding the First World War, Britain faced its gravest political crisis since the days of Cromwell and Charles I. The Liberal government was dete

"Between 1885 and 1921 Irish Home Rule became increasingly focused on the province of Ulster, and especially on Ulster Unionist resistance to the prospect of su

The Home Rule Bill, passed by the British parliament in 1912, was due, when it came into effect in 1914, to give Ireland some control over her own affairs for t