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rule legislature established by the British government in 1921 for the southern counties of Ireland, which was quickly superseded by the institutions of the Irish Free State.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
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
surface form: United Kingdom Parliament
constitutionalStatus home rule parliament within the United Kingdom
continent Europe
convenedBy Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent
surface form: 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 University College Dublin
surface form: Royal College of Science for Ireland
hasPart Parliament of Southern Ireland self-linksurface differs
surface form: House of Commons of Southern Ireland

Senate of Southern Ireland
historicalPeriod Irish War of Independence
Irish republican movement
surface form: Irish revolutionary period
intendedRelationshipToNorthernIreland parallel to Parliament of Northern Ireland
intendedToRepresent 26 southern counties of Ireland
legalBasis Government of Ireland Act 1920
legalSuccessor Irish Free State Oireachtas
surface form: Oireachtas of the Irish Free State
legislativeCompetence domestic affairs of Southern Ireland
legislativeStatus largely ineffective
locatedIn Dublin
lowerHouse Irish House of Commons
surface form: House of Commons of Southern Ireland
monarch George V
numberOfHouses 2
partOf Government of Ireland Act 1920
surface form: 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
Northern Ireland Parliament
surface form: Parliament of Northern Ireland
replacedBy Irish Free State Oireachtas
surface form: Oireachtas of the Irish Free State

Irish Free State Oireachtas
surface form: 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 Parliament of Southern Ireland
this entity surface form: House of Commons of Southern Ireland
Government of Ireland Act 1920 providedFor Parliament of Southern Ireland
this entity surface form: Senate of Southern Ireland
Oireachtas predecessor Parliament of Southern Ireland
Parliament of Southern Ireland hasPart Parliament of Southern Ireland self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: House of Commons of Southern Ireland
Council of Ireland relatedTo Parliament of Southern Ireland
Southern Ireland legislature Parliament of Southern Ireland
Southern Ireland lowerHouse Parliament of Southern Ireland
this entity surface form: House of Commons of Southern Ireland
Assembly of Ireland predecessor Parliament of Southern Ireland
this entity surface form: House of Commons of Southern Ireland
Irish Free State Oireachtas replaced Parliament of Southern Ireland