Government of Ireland Act 1920 An Act to Provide for the Better
Government of Ireland, more usually the Government of Ireland
Act, 1920 (its official short title) was the second act passed
by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to provide for Irish
home rule. The bills of 1886, 1893 were never passed, and the
act of 1914 was almost immediately suspended because of the
First World War and then the Easter Rising in 1916, and never
came into force. As the fourth attempt to pass a home rule bill,
the Act is also known as the Fourth Home Rule Bill. The Act,
introduced by the Government of David Lloyd George, provided for
two partitioned Irish home rule states, Northern Ireland and
Southern Ireland. Their creation was a compromise produced by
the British Government when faced with the demand by Irish
nationalists for home rule and the demand of Irish unionists
that home rule not be conceded. Each state was to have a two-
chamber parliament, a House of Commons and a Senate. Elections
in both states for both lower ho