Home Rule II: The Government of Ireland Bill, 1893

Becoming - Part IV

On 13 February 1893, Gladstone introduced ‘A Bill intituled an Act to amend the provision for the Government of Ireland’—the second Home Rule Bill. The measure proposed neither repeal of the Act of Union nor Irish independence; rather, it sought once more to reconcile a demand for devolved government in Dublin with the continuing supremacy of the Imperi…