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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

National Portrait Gallery

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

cartoon, 15 February 1922
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

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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
National Archives Ireland

The 1916 Courts-martial and the Dublin Executions

article, 2018
British Academy

Political History of Northern Ireland since Partition

open_in_new
Article, 1999
Youtube RTE

How the Conscription Crisis Changed Irish Politics

video clip, 2019
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: 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 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
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Irish Civil War

video clip, 2015
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Six Counties

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
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
National Archives UK

The Irish Situation – April 1920

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document, 3 April 1920
National Archives UK

The Irish Situation – August 1920

open_in_new
document, 13 August 1920
History Ireland

The burning of Cork, December 1920

open_in_new
article, 2015

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

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
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
Catholic recruitment to USC
Bicycles, Barracks & Bandoliers

Memo regarding Catholic recruitment in the RUC and USC

memo, March 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
Irish Film Institute

Martial Law in Ireland

newsreel, December 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

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
Youtube RTE

1916: How the Rising changed Irish political life

video clip, 2016
Youtube RTE

A Sinn Féin Rebellion? How the Rising gave rise to a new political force

video clip, 2016

National Museums Ireland

Official communique from Dublin Castle

document, 29 April 1916
UCD History Hub

Arthur Griffith, Sinn Fein and the IRB (The Irish Revolution Lecture 3)

podcast, 2014
RTE Century Ireland

Irish Volunteers founded in Dublin

open_in_new
article, 2013
Youtube

The Ulster Solemn League and Covenant – BBC Documentary

TV programme, 2012

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  • Easter Rising,
  • Edward Carson,
  • Eoin MacNeill,
  • executions,
  • First World War,
  • Government of Ireland Act,
  • Herbert Asquith,
  • Home Rule,
  • Home Rule opposition,
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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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