2-716-588 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Passage of the Home Rule Bill from the Commons to the Lords, September 2, 1893', (1901). The Second Home Rule Bill (Government of Ireland Bill 1893) was the second attempt made by British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone to enact a system of home rule for Ireland. The bill was passed by the House of Commons, only to be vetoed by the House of Lords. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]