Parliament of Southern Ireland
The Parliament of Southern Ireland ( Irish Parlaimint Dheisceart Éireann, Parliament of Southern Ireland ) was established by the Government of Ireland Act in 1920 and originally comes from the Home Rule of 1914, which provided for an independent Irish Parliament. In the same train, the Parliament of Northern Ireland was created.
The parliament consisted of two chambers:
- The lower house, or House of Commons of Southern Ireland (Teach Teachtaí Dheisceart Éireann )
- The upper house, or Senate of Southern Ireland ( Seanad Éireann Dheisceart )
Due to the existing in parallel - but never officially recognized - revolutionary Dáil Éireann, the parliament never gained national importance, and had only a short term of years. In 1922 was established by the Anglo - Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State with its own parliament, called the Oireachtas.
The House of Commons
The House of Commons of Southern Ireland was the lower house of the southern Irish Parliament. 1921, elections were held for the lower house, but in reality there were no. All 128 candidates had in their constituencies no rival candidates - Sinn Féin reached 124 seats, four seats went to the Unionists in the constituency of Dublin University. But the 124 members of Sinn Féin ( as well as the Sinn Féin candidates who were elected in the simultaneous election in Northern Ireland) saw in this election, not the choice for southern Irish Parliament, but to the Second Dáil, the second ( revolutionary ) Irish Parliament, under whose name they also gathered.
In June 1921 " gathered " both houses officially at the Royal College of Science (now part of the parliament building ) in Merrion Street to the opening of Parliament under the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent. But it only appeared the four unionists. They chose Gerald Fitzgibbon as its chairman and adjourned indefinitely.
The House came later, by the Treaty Anglo -Irish back to a certain meaning. This agreement was confirmed in Ireland by two bodies: in the eyes of nationalists acknowledgment by the Dáil was crucial from the perspective of British politics, it was the confirmation by the House of Commons of Southern Ireland.
The House of Commons of Southern Ireland was then dissolved and replaced by a new parliament, the Constituent Assembly, Third Dáil or Provisional Parliament were called - depending on whether one is moving in whose political history.
The House of Lords
The Senate of Southern Ireland was the upper house of the southern Irish Parliament, for the first time took place in 1921 elections. As the House of Commons, and the House of Lords was boycotted by the Irish nationalists, so that only 15 assembled (of 61 ) members. In contrast to the House, however, two more Senate meetings took place before it was resolved by the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922.
The Senate was originally composed of 61 people:
- The Chairman ( Lord Chancellor of Ireland )
- 15 elected südirische nobles
- 8 Members of the Privy Councillor
- 2 delegates from the Anglican Church of Ireland
- Two emissaries of the Catholic Church
- 14 people that are determined by the Lord- Lieutenant
- 2 people are determined by the Lord- Lieutenant, in consultation with the workers' movement
- 17 selected individuals from the county councils
In addition to the Lord- Lieutenant, however, only 14 senators were chosen because the labor movement, the Catholic Church and the County Councils ( Sinn Féin controls ) did not cooperate.
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