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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
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Topic: Northern Ireland 1921–25

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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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National Portrait Gallery

James Craig

photograph & RIA Biography
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Establishment of NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act, The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Opposition to Home Rule

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Ballytrain RIC barracks captured and sacked by the IRA.

photograph, 1920
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
National Portrait Gallery

Ulster Unionist Leaders

photograph, 29 June 1920
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Establishment of NI government

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Belfast Boycott

leaflet, August 1920
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Belfast expelled workers

newspaper cutting, October 1920
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Legislation.gov.uk

Government of Ireland Act 1920

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Act, 23 December 1920
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Establishment of NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act
History Ireland

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

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article, 2012
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Six Counties

TV programme, 1980
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, Establishment of NI government
YouTube - RTE

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

video clip, 2021
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Establishment of NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
BBC - Story of Ireland

Story of Ireland: James Craig and the Catholic Minority

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video clip, 2014
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government

Decade of Centenaries timeline

USC at a police checkpoint

photograph, 1921
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
RTE

Northern Ireland 1921-1925: a state of emergency

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article, 2021
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, NI government rule 1921-25, Anglo-Irish War, Government of Ireland Act, Irish Civil War
YouTube - RTE

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

video clip, 2021
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Establishment of NI government, Political Developments 1919–23
Irish Film Institute

Ulster Parliament Assembles

newsreel, 1921
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Establishment of NI government
Youtube

Ulster Parliament (1921)

newsreel, 1921
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Establishment of NI government

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Restoration of Order in Ireland

poster, 23 November 1921
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
British Academy

Political History of Northern Ireland since Partition

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Article, 1999
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, NI government rule 1921-25

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Map showing Northern Ireland voting preferences

map, 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

The Collins – Craig agreement

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document, 23 January 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government

National Portrait Gallery

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

cartoon, 15 February 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act, Irish Civil War
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Extract from statement by Michael Collins on Northern Ireland policy

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document, 4 February 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
PRONI

Open Divisional Commissioner’s bi-monthly report

document, 15 February 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
Catholic recruitment to USC
Bicycles, Barracks & Bandoliers

Memo regarding Catholic recruitment in the RUC and USC

memo, March 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Craig-Collins Pact

leaflet, 30 March 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Civilians in Belfast being searched by police

photograph, 13 March 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
PRONI

Churchill’s telegram to Craig no.60

telegram, 24 March 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Heads of agreement between the provisional government and the government of Northern Ireland

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document, 30 March 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
Bicycles, Barracks and Barricades

Civil Authorities Special Powers Act

poster, April 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government

PRONI

Northern Ireland Cabinet Conclusions – Unemployment

document, 01 April 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
CAIN

Civil Authorities Special Powers Act 1922

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Act, 22 April 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Michael Collins to James Craig (Belfast)

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letter, 27 April 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government

Decade of Centenaries timeline

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

photograph, 22 May 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
Hansard

Ulster Special Constabulary

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speech, 15 May 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
Decade of Centenaries timeline

Michael Collins

photograph & RIA Biography
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Anglo-Irish War, Irish Civil War, Reaction to Treaty
County Down Outrages
Down County Museum

County Down Outrages

newspaper cutting, 3 June 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
PRONI

Report on Local Government Bill (Northern Ireland)

document, September 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government

Decade of Centenaries timeline

A Proportional Represention

political cartoon, 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
PRONI

Telegram from Churchill to Cosgrave

telegram, 11 September 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
History Ireland

Lord Londonderry & Education Reform

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article, 2001
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, Establishment of NI government

PRONI

North-Eastern Boundary Bureau: Weekly Bulletin

leaflet, January 1923
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government

PRONI

Letter from UUC re. NE Boundary Bureau

letter, 4 January 1923
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Memorandum- Our Territorial demand at the Boundary Commission

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document, 17 May 1923
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
PRONI

NI Cabinet Conclusions – Unemployment Increase

document, 30 July 1923
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
History Ireland

The emergence of the ‘Two Irelands’, 1912–25

Article, 2004
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Political Developments 1919–23
History Ireland

The Boundary Commission Debacle 1925, aftermath & implications

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article, 1996
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
Decade of Centenaries timeline

Irish Boundary Changes

newspaper cutting, 7 November 1925
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Notes of a conference with the Irish Boundary Commission

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document, 3 December 1925
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government
YouTube - RTE

Violence and the Birth of Northern Ireland

video clip, 2021
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Political Developments 1919–23

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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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