The question of Home Rule was put on hold due to the outbreak of World War I but was never to be revisited as a series of missteps by the British government, such as executing the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising and the Conscription Crisis of 1918, fuelled the Irish revolutionary period. The IPP were wiped out by Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election and, following a brief war of independence, 26 of Ireland's 32 counties ultimately severed ties with the United Kingdom in 1922, with Dublin becoming the capital of an independent Irish state.