ABSTRACT
In the two years that followed the Rising a sea change occurred in Irish nationalist politics, with the emergence of Sinn Féin to supplant the IPP as the largest political party in the country. The demands of Irish nationalism also changed; the decisive victory for the republican Sinn Féin Party in the 1918 general election indicated that home rule within the union was no longer acceptable to an electorate which had voiced its support for an independent state governed as a republic.
