the act, which separated northern and southern ireland was passed on may 3, 1921.
when was the act passed, which separated northern and southern ireland?
may 3, 1921
section::::government of ireland act 1920.





























the government of ireland act, passed at the end of december 1920, envisaged that southern ireland would have the following institutions:





























bullet::::- a parliament of southern ireland, consisting of the king, the senate of southern ireland, and the house of commons of southern ireland;





























bullet::::- a government of southern ireland;





























bullet::::- the supreme court of judicature of southern ireland;





























bullet::::- the court of appeal in southern ireland; and





























bullet::::- his majesty's high court of justice in southern ireland.





























it was also envisaged that southern ireland would share the following institutions with northern ireland:
southern ireland (1921–22)
while northern ireland did become a functioning entity, with a parliament and government that existed until 1972, southern ireland's parliament, although legally established, never functioned (for example, it never passed an act). the house of commons of southern ireland met just once with only four members present. an irish republic had been proclaimed by the parliament known as dáil éireann, formed by sinn féin members of parliament (mps) elected from ireland in the united kingdom general election in 1918. parliamentary elections under the government of ireland act 1920 were held in may 1921. the first general election to the house of commons of southern ireland in 1921, and the simultaneous general election to the house of commons of northern ireland, was used by sinn féin to produce a single extrajudicial parliament, the second dáil. in the southern ireland constituencies sinn féin won 124 of the 128 seats, all without contest, while in the contested elections in northern ireland constituencies it secured six of the 52 seats, another six going to non-sinn féin nationalists. (the other four southern seats were won by unionists from dublin and the university of dublin, who along with the forty unionists elected in the north declined to participate in the second dáil.) when the new parliament of southern ireland was called into session on 28 june 1921, only the four unionist members of the house of commons of southern ireland, and a handful of appointed senators, turned up in the royal college of science in dublin, where the meeting was scheduled to take place; most of the other members met elsewhere as the dáil.
southern ireland (1921–22)