Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Parliament of Southern Ireland (Irish: Pairlimint Deiscirt na hÉireann) was set up during the Irish War of Independence under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, evolving out of the Home Rule Act 1914, to legislate for "Southern Ireland", a political entity envisaged by the British Government which never became fully functioned as envisaged. The Parliament was bicameral, consisting of a House of Commons and a Senate. The parliament as two houses sat only once, in the Royal College of Science for Ireland in Merrion Street. As only a handful of members attended, the Houses were adjourned. The Provisional Government of Southern Ireland was constituted on 14 January 1922 at a meeting of members of the Parliament elected for constituencies in Southern Ireland . That meeting was not a meeting of the House of Commons of Southern Ireland.