Irish Convention

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 700+ words | Copyright

Irish Convention (25 July 1917–5 Apr. 1918), one of several attempts by Lloyd George to improvise an Irish settlement as the Nationalist Party lost ground to Sinn Féin in the aftermath of the rising of 1916. Over 100 delegates, representing different parties, met under the chairmanship of Sir Horace Plunkett. The main outcome was the assent of both nationalists and southern unionists to a scheme for immediate domestic self‐government, although the two groups were unable to agree on whether this should include fiscal autonomy. But the opposition of Sinn Féin, which boycotted the convention, and of the Ulster unionists, who demanded the exclusion of six or nine counties from any proposed Irish legislature, condemned the proceedings to irrelevance.

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