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March 7 - David
Lloyd-George announces that Britain is ready to confer
self-government to the parts of Ireland that wants it. The
north-eastern part will not be "coerced".
March 20 - A motion to reduce the salary of the British Prime
Minister by £100 is introduced in the British House of Commons. It is a protest
against the refusal to publish the proceedings of the 1916 Rising
courts martial.
May 16 - British Prime Minister, David
Lloyd-George, announces that he wants immediate Home Rule for
the 26 counties. Six north-eastern counties are to be excluded for
a period of 5 years.
July 10 - Éamon de Valera of Sinn Féin beats
Patrick Lynch, a Home Rule candidate, in the East-Clare
by-election. One Dublin Castle official calls it 'the most
important election that has ever taken place, or ever will, in
Irish history.'
July 16 - The Round Room in the Mansion House is filled to
capacity as the leaders of Sinn Féin demand the bodies of the Easter Rising
leaders so that they can be given a Christian burial.
July 25 - Large crowds assemble at College Green in Dublin as the Irish
Convention meets for the first time.
October 25 - 1,700 Sinn Féin delegates attend a convention in
the Mansion House and De Valera replaced Arthur Griffith as the president of
Sinn Féin