Parliament of Southern Ireland

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The Parliament of Southern Ireland was a short-lived, largely ineffective home rule legislature established by the British government in 1921 for the southern counties of Ireland, which was quickly superseded by the institutions of the Irish Free State.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf home rule legislature
legislature
parliament
appliesToJurisdiction Southern Ireland
associatedWith Irish Free State
Southern Ireland
United Kingdom Parliament
constitutionalStatus home rule parliament within the United Kingdom
continent Europe
convenedBy Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent
country United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
didNotEffectivelyFunction true
dissolutionCause establishment of the Irish Free State
endDate 1922-12-06
establishedBy Government of Ireland Act 1920
excludedPowers defence and foreign affairs
firstMeetingCity Dublin
firstMeetingDate 1921-06-28
firstMeetingPlace Royal College of Science for Ireland
hasPart House of Commons of Southern Ireland
Senate of Southern Ireland
historicalPeriod Irish War of Independence
Irish revolutionary period
intendedRelationshipToNorthernIreland parallel to Parliament of Northern Ireland
intendedToRepresent 26 southern counties of Ireland
legalBasis Government of Ireland Act 1920
legalSuccessor Oireachtas of the Irish Free State
legislativeCompetence domestic affairs of Southern Ireland
legislativeStatus largely ineffective
locatedIn Dublin
lowerHouse House of Commons of Southern Ireland
monarch George V
numberOfHouses 2
partOf Government of Ireland Act 1920 settlement
predecessor direct rule from Westminster
primaryLanguage English
reasonForIneffectiveness boycott by most Irish nationalist representatives
region Ireland
relatedBody Dáil Éireann
Parliament of Northern Ireland
replacedBy Oireachtas of the Irish Free State
Provisional Parliament of the Irish Free State
seat Dublin
shortLived true
startDate 1921-05-28
status defunct
supersededBy institutions of the Irish Free State
upperHouse Senate of Southern Ireland

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Government of Ireland Act 1920 createdInstitution Parliament of Southern Ireland
Government of Ireland Act 1920 providedFor House of Commons of Southern Ireland
linked to: Parliament of Southern Ireland
Government of Ireland Act 1920 providedFor Senate of Southern Ireland
linked to: Parliament of Southern Ireland
Oireachtas predecessor Parliament of Southern Ireland
Parliament of Southern Ireland hasPart House of Commons of Southern Ireland
linked to: Parliament of Southern Ireland
Council of Ireland relatedTo Parliament of Southern Ireland
Southern Ireland legislature Parliament of Southern Ireland
Southern Ireland lowerHouse House of Commons of Southern Ireland
linked to: Parliament of Southern Ireland
Assembly of Ireland predecessor House of Commons of Southern Ireland
linked to: Parliament of Southern Ireland
Irish Free State Oireachtas replaced Parliament of Southern Ireland