ABSTRACT
The two tasks facing the British Government in regard to Ireland during the years 1919–21 were restoring law and order and finding a political settlement. The Government of Ireland Act had been postponed for the duration of the First World War and was due to be implemented. Events in Ireland in the meantime meant that it could not be enforced in the form it had taken in 1914, so the government was tasked with drawing up yet another home rule bill for Ireland.
