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The introduction of Irish Home Rule was delayed by obstruction by the House of Lords and the outbreak of the First World War resulting the Easter Rising, the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.

Suppose the Asquith government had stood firmer and confronted the Unionists or the Liberal had supported home rule proposed home rule in 1906 or even earlier Joseph Chamberlain hadn't split the Liberal in the 1880s? That makes a POD around 1886 and one around 1906 at least.

What if home rule was achieved? What effect would it have had on the First World War or on the support for the Fenians? Would indpendence have come from an Irish assembly incrementally in the same way that De Valer
a began to sever the links of the Free State with the crown?
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