Parliament of Southern Ireland
Parliament of Southern Ireland | |
|---|---|
| Type | |
| Type | |
| Houses | Senate, House of Commons |
| History | |
| Established | 1920 |
| Disbanded | 27 May 1922 |
| Preceded by | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Succeeded by | Provisional Parliament |
| Leadership | |
Sir John Ross (last) | |
Speaker of the House of Commons | Gerald Fitzgibbon (first & last) |
| Seats | 64 Senators 128 members of parliament (MPs) |
| Elections | |
House of Commons voting system | STV |
Last House of Commons election | 1921 Irish elections (first & last) |
| Meeting place | |
| The Royal College of Science for Ireland Location for the first official meeting of both Houses. Now Government Buildings | |
| Footnotes | |
| See also: Parliament of Northern Ireland | |
The Parliament of Southern Ireland was a Home Rule legislature established by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It was designed to legislate for Southern Ireland, a political entity which was created by the British Government to solve the issue of rising Irish nationalism and the issue of partitionism, while retaining the whole of Ireland as part of the United Kingdom.
The parliament was bicameral, consisting of a House of Commons (the lower house) with 128 seats and a Senate (the upper house) with 64 seats. The parliament as two houses sat only once, in the Royal College of Science for Ireland in Merrion Street. Due to the low turnout of members attending, the parliament was adjourned sine die and was later officially disbanded by the Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922.