Home Rule
What Home Rule means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Irish self-government within the Union, pressed for through a Dublin parliament by persuasion and parliamentary argument.
The restoration of an Irish parliament in Dublin to manage domestic affairs, while remaining part of the British Empire.
Topics that use Home Rule
- 1G Challenge and transformation: Britain, c1851–1964 – Challenges to the status quo, c1886–1914 (AQA A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 36.2: Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923 - 1 Irish nationalism: from agitation to civil war (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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