Skip to content
Partition portal

A collection of Partition era online resources

  • 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

Topics

  • 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
Filtered (40)
Filter objects
  • Reset all ×
  • image ×
  • video ×
  • 1920-22 Troubles ×
  • Countess Markievicz ×
  • curfew ×
  • German Plot ×
  • internment ×
  • James Craig ×
  • Partition ×
  • RUC ×

Filter objects

Filter by medium
Filter by Keyword
Show (40)
Cancel

National Portrait Gallery

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

cartoon, 15 February 1922
YouTube - RTE

Anglo-Irish Treaty signed 100 years ago today

video clip, 2021
History Hub

Diarmaid Ferriter discusses the Anglo Irish Treaty (Full Interview)

video clip, 2020
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 - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Edward Carson

video clip, 2015
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Ulster Unionism

video clip, 2015
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: The Execution of the 1916 Leaders

video clip, 2015
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland: The Rising

TV programme, 1980
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: The Fighting of Easter Week

video clip, 2015
Youtube RTE

The Partition of Ireland – How and Why Did it Happen?

video clip, 2018
Youtube RTE

Why was the Irish Party destroyed in 1918?

video clip, 2018
Youtube RTE

How Britain lost Ireland

video clip, 2017
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion – Treaty Debates

video clip, 2015
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion – The Anglo-Irish Treaty

video clip, 2015
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Civil War

TV programme, 1980
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Six Counties

TV programme, 1980
BBC Youtube

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

TV programme, 2012

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Fire fighters extinguishing the flames, Messrs. William Campbell & Co

photograph, 22 May 1922

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Civilians in Belfast being searched by police

photograph, 13 March 1922

Decade of Centenaries timeline

USC at a police checkpoint

photograph, 1921

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Belfast Boycott

leaflet, August 1920
Youtube

Ulster Parliament (1921)

newsreel, 1921
BBC - Story of Ireland

Story of Ireland: James Craig and the Catholic Minority

open_in_new
video clip, 2014

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Restoration of Order in Ireland

poster, 23 November 1921
Bicycles, Barracks and Barricades

Civil Authorities Special Powers Act

poster, April 1922

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Craig-Collins Pact

leaflet, 30 March 1922
Irish Film Institute

Ulster Parliament Assembles

newsreel, 1921
Irish Film Institute

Irish peace imperilled by extremists

newsreel, December 1921

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Ballytrain RIC barracks captured and sacked by the IRA.

photograph, 1920

National Museums Ireland

Thomas Ashe – Easter Greetings, 1918 / Easter card

postcard, Easter 1918
Youtube RTE

1916: How the Rising changed Irish political life

video clip, 2016

National Museums Ireland

Official communique from Dublin Castle

document, 29 April 1916
UVF calendar
Down County Museum

East Down Unionist Association calendar for the UVF

calendar, 1913

Decade of Centenaries timeline

John Redmond has ‘Second Thoughts’ about ‘Home Rule’

political cartoon, October 1913
Youtube

The Ulster Solemn League and Covenant – BBC Documentary

TV programme, 2012
BBC

Ulster Covenant – Edward Carson and James Craig

open_in_new
video clip, 2012

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Unionist Clubs and Orangemen en route to Balmoral Showgrounds

photograph, April 1912

Keywords

  • Anglo-Irish treaty,
  • Anglo-Irish war,
  • anti-treaty forces,
  • Arthur Griffith,
  • biography,
  • British Army,
  • British government,
  • David Lloyd George,
  • Dublin,
  • Dáil Éireann,
  • Eamon de Valera,
  • Easter Rising,
  • Edward Carson,
  • Eoin MacNeill,
  • executions,
  • First World War,
  • Government of Ireland Act,
  • Herbert Asquith,
  • Home Rule,
  • Home Rule opposition,
  • House of Commons,
  • IPP,
  • IRA,
  • IRB,
  • Irish Free State,
  • Irish Volunteers,
  • James Connolly,
  • James Craig,
  • John Redmond,
  • Michael Collins,
  • Nationalists,
  • Northern Ireland,
  • Northern Ireland government,
  • Partition,
  • Patrick Pearse,
  • pro-treaty forces,
  • RIC,
  • Sean MacDermott,
  • Sinn Féin,
  • Third Home Rule Bill,
  • Thomas MacDonagh,
  • Tom Clarke,
  • Ulster Unionists,
  • Unionists,
  • UVF,
  • 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
Partition Portal | Exam Resources | about