Local Government (Ireland) Act passed power from landlords to elected councils

Category
Government
Place
Ireland
Date
1898
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"After the introduction of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 which broke the power of the landlord-dominated "Grand Juries", passing for the first time democratic control of local affairs into the hands of the people through elected Local County Councils, the debate over full Home Rule led to tensions between Irish nationalists and Irish unionists (those who favoured maintenance of the Union). Most of the island was predominantly nationalist, Catholic and agrarian. The northeast, however, was predominantly unionist, Protestant and industrialised. Unionists feared a loss of political power and economic wealth in a predominantly rural, nationalist, Catholic home-rule state. Nationalists believed they would remain economically and politically second-class citizens without self-government. Out of this division, two opposing sectarian movements evolved, the Protestant Orange Order and the Catholic Ancient Order of Hibernians." [Wikipedia]

This event is linked to the following periods

PeriodMiner
Begin
End
Category
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1801
1922
Irish