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  • Third Home Rule Bill Crisis
    • Background to the Home Rule Crisis
    • Opposition to Home Rule
    • Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14
    • Reaction to the Home Rule Act
  • Political Developments
    1914–18
    • Ireland during WWI
    • Easter Rising
    • Easter Rising Aftermath
    • Rise of Sinn Féin
  • Political Developments
    1919–23
    • Anglo-Irish War
    • Truce
    • Anglo-Irish Treaty
    • Reaction to the Treaty
    • Irish Civil War
    • Government of Ireland Act
  • Northern Ireland
    1921–25
    • Challenges facing NI government
    • Establishment of NI government
  • Study & Exam Resources

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  • Third Home Rule Bill Crisis
    • Background to the Home Rule Crisis
    • Opposition to Home Rule
    • Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14
    • Reaction to the Home Rule Act
  • Political Developments 1914–18
    • Ireland during WWI
    • Easter Rising
    • Easter Rising Aftermath
    • Rise of Sinn Féin
  • Political Developments 1919–23
    • Anglo-Irish War
    • Anglo-Irish Truce
    • Anglo-Irish Treaty
    • Reaction to the Treaty
    • Irish Civil War
    • Government of Ireland Act
  • Northern Ireland 1921–25
    • Challenges facing NI government
    • Establishment of NI government
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NLI 1916

Seán McDermott

Photograph & RIA Biography

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Erskine Childers

photograph & RIA Biography
Wikimedia

Arthur Griffith

photograph & RIA Biography
RTE

Peace by Ordeal: How the Treaty was signed

open_in_new
article, 2021
RTE

How the Treaty debate changed Irish politics forever

open_in_new
article, 2021
RTE

The Provisional Government of the Irish Free State

open_in_new
article, 2022
RTE

The Geography of the War of Independence

open_in_new
article, 2021
History Hub

Diarmaid Ferriter discusses the Anglo Irish Treaty (Full Interview)

video clip, 2020

The Origins of Northern Ireland

,
National Archives Ireland

The 1916 Courts-martial and the Dublin Executions

article, 2018
National Archives

The Courts-martial of the 1916 leaders

article, 2019
RTE YouTube

Conscription & Ireland, 1916-1918

video clip, 2018
RTE YouTube

Ireland at War: Who joins up and Why?

video clip, 2016
RTE Youtube

Ireland’s War-time Recruitment Explained

video clip, 2016
RTE - YouTube

36th Ulster Division and the Somme

video clip, 2016
Youtube RTE

How the Conscription Crisis Changed Irish Politics

video clip, 2019
RTE Archives

Easter Rising: Recollections of British Soldiers

open_in_new
video clip, 1980
UCD History Hub

John Redmond’s Woodenbridge speech and the split in the Irish Volunteers

podcast, c.2015

PRONI

Letter from UUC re. NE Boundary Bureau

letter, 4 January 1923
PRONI

Churchill’s telegram to Craig no.60

telegram, 24 March 1922
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Ulster Unionism

video clip, 2015
Hansard

Prime Minister’s Announcement – Ireland

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speech, 10 December 1920
Youtube RTE

British Policy and the 1916 Rising

video clip, 2016
Hansard

Continuance of Martial Law – John Dillon

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debate, 11 May 1916
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland: The Rising

TV programme, 1980
RTE Archives

The Easter Rising

open_in_new
video clip, 2015
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: The Fighting of Easter Week

video clip, 2015
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: War of Independence

video clip, 2015
Youtube RTE

Why was the Irish Party destroyed in 1918?

video clip, 2018
Youtube RTE

How Britain lost Ireland

video clip, 2017
Youtube RTE

The 1918 Election: What Became of the Irish Parliamentary Party

video clip, 2018
The Irish Times

The North and 1918

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article, 2018
The Irish Times

Sinn Féin and the conscription crisis

open_in_new
article, 2018
Daily Telegraph

First Bloodshed in Ireland

newspaper, 27 July 1914
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Civil War

TV programme, 1980
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Ulster will fight

TV programme, 1980
Youtube RTE

Ireland’s Greatest – Michael Collins

TV programme, 2013
BBC Youtube

BBC’s: The Story of Ireland – Age of Nations

TV programme, 2012

PRONI

Resolution passed by UUC accepting six counties partition

document, 12 June 1916

PRONI

Why I voted for the Six Counties by F.H. Crawford

leaflet, April 1920
UCC

Sinn Féin Constitution

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document, 25 October 1917
RTE Century Ireland

De Valera elected as President of Sinn Féin

open_in_new
article, 2017
Hansard

Lord Curzon – House of Lords Anglo-Irish War

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speech, 20 October 1920
RTE Century Ireland

Sinn Féin leaders arrested over alleged ‘German plot’

open_in_new
article, 2018

UCD Digital Library

Group of IFS Army soldiers firing artillery on the Four Courts

photograph, 28 June 1922
National Archives UK

Cabinet Memorandum. Ireland.  

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document, 16 May 1922
National Archives UK

The Irish Situation – April 1920

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document, 3 April 1920
National Archives UK

The Irish Situation – August 1920

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document, 13 August 1920
National Archives UK

Restoration of Order in Ireland Bill

open_in_new
document, 30 July 1920
History Ireland

The burning of Cork, December 1920

open_in_new
article, 2015

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Black and Tans on patrol in Dublin

photograph, 1920
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Extract from statement by Michael Collins on Northern Ireland policy

open_in_new
document, 4 February 1922
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Memorandum- Our Territorial demand at the Boundary Commission

open_in_new
document, 17 May 1923

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Belfast Boycott

leaflet, August 1920
History Ireland

Tit-for-tat: the War of Independence in the northern counties

open_in_new
article, 2012

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Map showing Northern Ireland voting preferences

map, 1922
History Ireland

The Boundary Commission Debacle 1925, aftermath & implications

open_in_new
article, 1996
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Notes of a conference with the Irish Boundary Commission

open_in_new
document, 3 December 1925

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Restoration of Order in Ireland

poster, 23 November 1921
National Archives UK

Irish Settlement: Proposals of the British government

open_in_new
document, 20 July 1921
National Archives UK

Terms of the Armstice

open_in_new
document, 9 July 1921
National Archives

Ireland Home Rule Bill and Conscription

open_in_new
document, 18 June 1918
National Archives

Application of the Military Service Act

open_in_new
document, 23 April 1918
National Archives

Ireland – Compulsory Military Service

open_in_new
document, 27 March 1918
National Archives

Application of Military Service Act to Ireland

open_in_new
document, 26 March 1918

IWM

National Army form barricade in Dublin

photograph, June 1922

Flickr - NLI

Irregular prisoner

photograph, 22 June 1922

Flickr - NLI

The Four Courts in Dublin bombarded by National Army forces

photograph, June 1922
Irish Film Institute

British Evacuate after Hundreds of Years of Occupation

newsreel, May 1922
UCD History Hub

The Irish Civil War (Irish Revolution Lecture 10)

podcast, 2014

Warwick Digital Collections

Peace with Ireland: Labour’s Proposals for a Settlement by Consent

leaflet, 26 January 1921

National Museums Ireland

Republican Courts

document, February 1921

National Museums Ireland

Tomas MacCurtain Commemorative postcard

postcard, March 1920

IWM

British Army crossing trench cut by IRA

photograph, 1920

IWM

The IRA suspects lined up outside barracks after a roundup

photograph, 1920

Flickr - NLI

Military carrying out official reprisal following an ambush in Meelin, Co. Cork

photograph, January 1921

Flickr - NLI

Burning of Cork

photograph, Deccember 1920
Irish Film Institute

Daily Terror in Ireland

newsreel, October 1920
Irish Film Institute

Martial Law in Ireland

newsreel, December 1920
Decade of Centenaries timeline

Five Men Shot Dead in Derry

newspaper cutting, 17 June 1920
Hathi Trust Digital Library

The General Elections of December 1918

book, c 1919
Poster for De Valera meeting in Downpatrick
Down County Museum

Downpatrick Sinn Féin monster demonstration

poster, 1919

IWM

We Got Him Out to Put Him In

poster, 1918
UCD History Hub

The 1918 General Election (The Irish Revolution Lecture 6)

podcast, 2014

Decade of Centenaries timeline

The women of Wicklow will cast their first vote for independence

poster, 1918

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Ireland’s Solemn League and Covenant: Anti-conscription protest form

document, April 1918

Wikimedia

Sinn Féin election poster

poster, 1918
RTE Century Ireland

Between armed rebellion and democratic revolution: the Irish Question in 1917

open_in_new
article, 2017
RTE Century Ireland

Rebel leader Thomas Ashe arrested for inflammatory speech

open_in_new
article, 2017
RTE Century Ireland

Introducing de Valera – The East Clare by-election and the rise of an Irish political leader

open_in_new
article, 2017
UCD History Hub

Aftermath of The Rising and 1917 By-Elections. (The Irish Revolution Lecture 5)

podcast, 2014
BBC

BBC Easter Rising website

open_in_new
article, 2003
Irish Independent 1916 collection

After the Shooting Stopped

article, 2017
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: The Legacy of 1916

video clip, 2015

National Museums Ireland

Thomas Clarke, 1916 / death certificate

certificate, 2 June 1916

National Museums Ireland

The last letter written by Seán Mac Diarmada (Sean MacDermott)

letter, 11 May 1916

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Rounding up the Rebels

photograph, April 1916
dippam

Royal Commission on Arrest and subsequent treatment of Mr. Francis Sheehy Skeffington

open_in_new
document, August 1916
UCD History Hub

The Easter Rising (The Irish Revolution Lecture 4)

podcast, 2014
Youtube RTE

1916: How the Rising changed Irish political life

video clip, 2016

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  • Third Home Rule Bill Crisis
    • Background to the Home Rule Crisis
    • Opposition to Home Rule
    • Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14
    • Reaction to the Home Rule Act
  • Political Developments
    1914–18
    • Ireland during WWI
    • Easter Rising
    • Easter Rising Aftermath
    • Rise of Sinn Féin
  • Political Developments
    1919–23
    • Anglo-Irish War
    • Truce
    • Anglo-Irish Treaty
    • Reaction to the Treaty
    • Irish Civil War
    • Government of Ireland Act
  • Northern Ireland
    1921–25
    • Challenges facing NI government
    • Establishment of NI government
  • Study & Exam Resources
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