Timeline Friday 18 September 1914

Events on Friday 18 September 1914 1

• 1914 Irish Home Rule Act receives royal assent Ireland is granted self-government, immediately suspended for the war The Government of Ireland Act, granting home rule to Ireland after decades of political struggle, finally received royal assent. Its implementation was suspended for the duration of the war then underway, a delay that hardened divisions on all sides. The unresolved question fed directly into the Easter Rising two years later.