What is the Home Rule Crisis 1912-1914?

The Home Rule Crisis was a crisis over the issue of
whether Ireland should be given home rule, in the shape of an autonomous Irish
parliament.  It started when a home rule bill was passed in 1912 and ended when the bill
was suspended in 1914 because of the start of WWI.

The
basic problem was that there were two parts of Ireland with different majorities.  In
Ulster in the north, there was a majority of Protestants who wanted to remain united
with England.  In the south, there was a majority of Catholics who wanted home rule.  In
each region, moreover, there were large enough minorities of the other religion/party to
make any solution difficult.

In the crisis, the home rule
bill was passed (it needed to be passed three times in successive years because of
British law), leading to threats of rebellion among various factions.  These threats and
the worries they brought were the basis of the Home Rule Crisis.