In 1919, the frustrations caused by delays to Irish home rule led members of Sinn Féin, a pro-independence party that had won a majority of the Irish seats at Westminster in the 1918 British general election, to establish an Irish assembly in Dublin, at which Irish independence was declared. The Irish Republican Army simultaneously began a guerrilla war against the British administration. The Anglo-Irish War ended in 1921 with a stalemate and the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, creating the Irish Free State, a Dominion within the British Empire, with effective internal independence but still constitutionally linked with the British Crown. Northern Ireland, consisting of six of the 32 Irish counties which had been established as a devolved region under the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, immediately exercised its option under the treaty to retain its existing status within the United Kingdom. COUNT 5
QSN1 When did Ireland establish their own assembly? ANS1 1919 QSN2 What political party established Ireland's assembly? ANS2 Sinn Féin QSN3 When did the Anglo-Irish War end? ANS3 1921 QSN4 What treaty was signed after the Anglo-Irish War? ANS4 Anglo-Irish Treaty QSN5 How many counties of Ireland are in Northern Ireland? ANS5 six