The Home Rule bills have been filed in the House of Commons at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries to provide Ireland with its own government and autonomy within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and parts of the Act or Union of 1800, which fused both countries.
Four such proposals were submitted, two of which were approved. The third proposal, endorsed in 1914, was never executed by the war conditions and the 1950 Revolution, while the fourth proposal, adopted in 1920, no longer provided for self-government of the whole island but in self-government for two separate territories, this of north Ireland and Southern Ireland. This latter law was only applied in Northern Ireland, but never in southern Ireland, which would become the independent Republic of Ireland later. Chronology Also see
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