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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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RTE

Peace by Ordeal: How the Treaty was signed

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article, 2021
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
Google Arts and Culture

Memorandum from Arthur Griffith to de Valera on Ulster

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document, 8 November 1921
Youtube RTE

How the Conscription Crisis Changed Irish Politics

video clip, 2019
RTE Archives

Easter Rising: Recollections of British Soldiers

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video clip, 1980
UCD History Hub

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

podcast, c.2015
PRONI

Report on Local Government Bill (Northern Ireland)

document, September 1922
PRONI

Churchill’s telegram to Craig no.60

telegram, 24 March 1922
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Ulster Unionism

video clip, 2015
Hansard

Andrew Bonar Law – Irish Free State Debate

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debate, 15 December 1921
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

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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
The Irish Times

The North and 1918

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article, 2018
The Irish Times

Sinn Féin and the conscription crisis

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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 – Six Counties

TV programme, 1980
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Ulster will fight

TV programme, 1980

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Pro-treaty leaflet detailing some arguments about the anti-treaty supporters

leaflet, 15 June 1922
National Archives UK

Cabinet Memorandum – Ireland (Draft Constitution)

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document, 1 June 1922
National Archives UK

Cabinet Memorandum. Ireland.  

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document, 16 May 1922
National Archives UK

The Irish Settlement-6th December 1921

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document, 6 December 1921
National Archives UK

The Irish Situation – April 1920

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document, 3 April 1920
National Archives UK

Restoration of Order in Ireland Bill

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document, 30 July 1920
County Down Outrages
Down County Museum

County Down Outrages

newspaper cutting, 3 June 1922
History Ireland

The burning of Cork, December 1920

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article, 2015

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Black and Tans on patrol in Dublin

photograph, 1920

Decade of Centenaries timeline

USC at a police checkpoint

photograph, 1921
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Extract from statement by Michael Collins on Northern Ireland policy

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document, 4 February 1922
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Memorandum- Our Territorial demand at the Boundary Commission

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document, 17 May 1923

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Map showing Northern Ireland voting preferences

map, 1922
History Ireland

The Boundary Commission Debacle 1925, aftermath & implications

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article, 1996
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Notes of a conference with the Irish Boundary Commission

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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

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document, 20 July 1921
National Archives UK

Terms of the Armstice

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document, 9 July 1921
National Archives

Ireland Home Rule Bill and Conscription

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document, 18 June 1918
National Archives

Application of the Military Service Act

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document, 23 April 1918
National Archives

Ireland – Compulsory Military Service

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document, 27 March 1918
National Archives

Application of Military Service Act to Ireland

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document, 26 March 1918
Catholic recruitment to USC
Bicycles, Barracks & Bandoliers

Memo regarding Catholic recruitment in the RUC and USC

memo, March 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

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

Decade of Centenaries timeline

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

document, April 1918

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

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document, August 1916
UCD History Hub

The Easter Rising (The Irish Revolution Lecture 4)

podcast, 2014

IWM

Irish Surrender Document

document, 29 April 1916
Easter 1916 An tÓglách Accounts

An tÓgláċ The Defence of the G.P.O. Accounts

article, 1926

National Museums Ireland

Official communique from Dublin Castle

document, 29 April 1916

IWM

Proclamation of Martial Law

poster, 25 April 1916
RTE Archives

Ireland and the Great War

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exhibition, 2014
BBC- Voices 16

Enemies Unite

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video clip, 2016
BBC- Voices 16

Thomas Kettle’s dilemma

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video clip, 2016
RTE Century Ireland

Ireland’s Opportunity? The First World War & 1916

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article, 2016

NLI 1916

Leaflet urging Irish National Volunteers to join British army

poster, 1914-16
RTE Century Ireland

Chronology of the Easter Rising

open_in_new
article, 2016

Decade of Centenaries timeline

WWI Recruitment poster – “I’ll go too!”

poster, 1914

Decade of Centenaries timeline

WWI Recruitment poster – Mr John Redmond MP

poster, 1914
UCD History Hub

The Home Rule Party (The Irish Revolution Lecture 2)

podcast, 2014
RTE Century Ireland

The Curragh Crisis, March 1914

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article, 2014
RTE Century Ireland

The Curragh Crisis

article, 2014
History Ireland

The search for Statutory Ulster

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article, 2009

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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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