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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

Éamonn Ceannt

photograph & RIA Biography
UCD

Eoin MacNeill

photograph & RIA Biography

National Portrait Gallery

The Mad Bull (James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon; Michael Collins)

cartoon, 15 February 1922
History Hub

Diarmaid Ferriter discusses the Anglo Irish Treaty (Full Interview)

video clip, 2020

The Origins of Northern Ireland

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National Portrait Gallery

Ulster Unionist Leaders

photograph, 29 June 1920
YouTube - RTE

Why did Edward Carson not become Northern Ireland’s Prime Minister?

video clip, 2021
YouTube - RTE

What role did sectarianism play in the creation of Northern Ireland?

video clip, 2021
YouTube - RTE

Violence and the Birth of Northern Ireland

video clip, 2021
YouTube - RTE

Ireland 1912-1916: An Animated History from Home Rule to Easter Rising

video clip, 2016
British Academy

Political History of Northern Ireland since Partition

open_in_new
Article, 1999
UCD History Hub

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

podcast, c.2015
PRONI

NI Cabinet Conclusions – Unemployment Increase

document, 30 July 1923

PRONI

Northern Ireland Cabinet Conclusions – Unemployment

document, 01 April 1922
PRONI

Churchill’s telegram to Craig no.60

telegram, 24 March 1922
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Edward Carson

video clip, 2015
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Ulster Unionism

video clip, 2015
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
The Irish Times

The North and 1918

open_in_new
article, 2018
Daily Telegraph

First Bloodshed in Ireland

newspaper, 27 July 1914

National Museums Ireland

Howth Gun Running, 1914

Photograph, 26 July 1914
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Irish Civil War

video clip, 2015
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Six Counties

TV programme, 1980
Irish Independent 1916 Collection

Assembling Armies and Acquiring Arms

article, 2015
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Ulster will fight

TV programme, 1980
BBC Youtube

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

TV programme, 2012

UCD Digital Library

Group of IFS Army soldiers firing artillery on the Four Courts

photograph, 28 June 1922
National Archives UK

Cabinet Memorandum. Ireland – Capture of Four Courts.

open_in_new
document, 30 June 1922

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

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
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
BBC - Story of Ireland

Story of Ireland: James Craig and the Catholic Minority

open_in_new
video clip, 2014
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

Irish Boundary Changes

newspaper cutting, 7 November 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

Correspondence between Lloyd George and de Valera

document, 10 August 1921
National Archives UK

Letter from Sir James Craig to the Prime Minister

open_in_new
document, 29 July 1921

Decade of Centenaries timeline

A Proportional Represention

political cartoon, 1922
Bureau of Military History

The Big Advance

newsletter, 22 July 1922

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Funeral Cortege of Michael Collins

photograph, 28 August 1922

IWM

National Army form barricade in Dublin

photograph, June 1922
Google Arts & Culture

War News No.3- Anti-Treaty Newsletter

open_in_new
newsletter, 30 June 1922

Flickr - NLI

The Four Courts in Dublin bombarded by National Army forces

photograph, June 1922
Catholic recruitment to USC
Bicycles, Barracks & Bandoliers

Memo regarding Catholic recruitment in the RUC and USC

memo, March 1922
Irish Film Institute

Battle of the Four Courts

newsreel, June 1922
UCD History Hub

The Irish Civil War (Irish Revolution Lecture 10)

podcast, 2014

Flickr - NLI

Michael Collins receives a great ovation

photograph, January 1922
Irish Film Institute

Daily Terror in Ireland

newsreel, October 1920
Decade of Centenaries timeline

Five Men Shot Dead in Derry

newspaper cutting, 17 June 1920

Flickr - NLI

Release of Republican Prisoners

photograph, June 1917

Flickr - NLI

Waiting on Westland Row to meet Prisoners

photograph, June 1917

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Rounding up the Rebels

photograph, April 1916
UCD History Hub

The Easter Rising (The Irish Revolution Lecture 4)

podcast, 2014

Flickr - NLI

The shell of the G.P.O. on Sackville Street after the 1916 Rising

photograph, May 1916
Plan of damage in Sackville street
National Archives

Plan of Sackville Street Area after Disturbances April 1916

map, c May 1916
Irish Independent 1916 collection

Sixteen Nails in the Coffin – The Easter Rising

article, 2016
National Museums Ireland

Bullet pierced hat worn by James Connolly 1916.

hat, April 1916
Easter 1916 An tÓglách Accounts

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

article, 1926
Internet Archive

Sinn Fein Rebellion handbook, Easter, 1916

book, 1916

National Museums Ireland

Official communique from Dublin Castle

document, 29 April 1916
BBC- Voices 16

Planning the Rebellion

open_in_new
video clip, 2016

IWM

Proclamation of Martial Law

poster, 25 April 1916
BBC- Voices 16

Enemies Unite

open_in_new
video clip, 2016
RTE Century Ireland

Ireland’s Opportunity? The First World War & 1916

open_in_new
article, 2016
UCC - The Irish Revolution

War in Ireland Easter Rebellion 1916

newsreel, May 1916
UCD History Hub

The Home Rule Party (The Irish Revolution Lecture 2)

podcast, 2014
RTE Century Ireland

The Curragh Crisis

article, 2014

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Ulster’s Historic Exploit

Newspaper cutting, 27 April 1914
UVF calendar
Down County Museum

East Down Unionist Association calendar for the UVF

calendar, 1913

PRONI

UVF manoeuvres publicly in Belfast

photograph, 1914
Youtube

The Ulster Solemn League and Covenant – BBC Documentary

TV programme, 2012

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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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