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Joseph Chamberlain espoused ethnic unionism instead of Home Rule

Joseph Chamberlain espoused ethnic unionism instead of Home Rule
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Northern Ireland lives to an unlikely centennial

Northern Ireland lives to an unlikely centennial Dan Hannan © (Getty Images) The 1920 Government of Ireland Act, as well as creating separate northern and southern chambers, established numerous all-Ireland bodies through which the two were eventually supposed to come together. Few expected Northern Ireland to reach its hundredth birthday. When it was born in May 1921, it had a provisional feel. The Government of Ireland Act, under which it was set up, established linked parliaments in Belfast and Dublin, but the second had already been overtaken by events and never sat. Devolution, paradoxically, came to the one part of Ireland that had always vehemently opposed it.

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