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    1914–18
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    1919–23
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    1921–25
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Topic: 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
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    • Ireland during WWI
    • Easter Rising
    • Easter Rising Aftermath
    • Rise of Sinn Féin
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    • Anglo-Irish War
    • Anglo-Irish Truce
    • Anglo-Irish Treaty
    • Reaction to the Treaty
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BBC Youtube

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

TV programme, 2012
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising, Easter Rising Aftermath, Ireland during WWI, Rise of Sinn Féin, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Anglo-Irish War, Irish Civil War, Reaction to Treaty, The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Background to the Home Rule Crisis, Opposition to Home Rule
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Ulster Unionism

video clip, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act, The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Opposition to Home Rule, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Edward Carson

video clip, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act, The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Opposition to Home Rule

PRONI

Resolution passed by UUC accepting six counties partition

document, 12 June 1916
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act

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

Eamon de Valera

photograph & RIA Biography
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising, Rise of Sinn Féin, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Irish Civil War, Reaction to Treaty
Youtube RTE

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

video clip, 2018
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act, The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14
Youtube RTE

Ireland’s Greatest – Michael Collins

TV programme, 2013
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Anglo-Irish War, Irish Civil War, Reaction to Treaty
National Archives

Home Rule : Government of Ireland Amendment Bill

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document, 23 April 1918
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act
National Archives

Ireland Home Rule Bill and Conscription

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document, 18 June 1918
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Rise of Sinn Féin, Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act
Youtube RTE

Domestic and Dangerous: Women in the Irish War of Independence

video clip, 2019
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Houses of Oireachtas

Dáil Éireann Declaration of Independence

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debate, 21 January 1919
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
RTE Archives

First Dáil

open_in_new
video clip, 2019
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Bureau of Military History

How Soloheadbeg Ambush Came About – Witness statement

document, 1919
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
History Ireland

Soloheadbeg: what really happened?

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article, 1997
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
House of Oireachtas

Message to the Free Nations of the World

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debate, 21 January 1919
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Bureau of Military History

An tOglach declares state of War

magazine, February 1919
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: War of Independence

video clip, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
RTE

The Geography of the War of Independence

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article, 2021
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Hansard

Government of Ireland Bill Debate – Andrew Bonar Law

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debate, 30 March 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act
Hansard

Government of Ireland Bill Debate – Herbert Asquith

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debate, 30 March 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act
Hansard

Government of Ireland Bill Debate -Joseph Devlin

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debate, 30 March 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act
Hansard

Government of Ireland Bill Debate – Chief Secretary of Ireland

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debate, 29 March 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act

PRONI

Why I voted for the Six Counties by F.H. Crawford

leaflet, April 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act
National Archives UK

The Irish Situation – April 1920

open_in_new
document, 3 April 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Decade of Centenaries timeline

Five Men Shot Dead in Derry

newspaper cutting, 17 June 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
National Archives UK

Restoration of Order in Ireland Bill

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document, 30 July 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
National Archives UK

The Irish Situation – August 1920

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document, 13 August 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Library of Congress

Eamon de Valera memorial address Terence MacSwinney

speech, October 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Irish Film Institute

Daily Terror in Ireland

newsreel, October 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Hansard

Lord Curzon – House of Lords Anglo-Irish War

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speech, 20 October 1920
Topics:Categories 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
Irish Film Institute

Martial Law in Ireland

newsreel, December 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Hansard

Prime Minister’s Announcement – Ireland

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speech, 10 December 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
History Ireland

The burning of Cork, December 1920

open_in_new
article, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
History Hub

Diarmaid Ferriter discusses the Anglo Irish Treaty (Full Interview)

video clip, 2020
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Anglo-Irish Truce, Reaction to Treaty
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
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
Hathi Trust Digital Library

The struggle of the Irish people. Address to the Congress of the United States

book, January 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War

National Museums Ireland

Republican Courts

document, February 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War
Hansard

Outrages and Reprisals

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speech, 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish 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
National Archives UK

Letter from Lloyd George inviting Craig and de Valera to a conference

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document, 24 June 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion – The Anglo-Irish Treaty

video clip, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
National Archives UK

Terms of the Armstice

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document, 9 July 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Truce
National Archives UK

Irish Settlement: Proposals of the British government

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document, 20 July 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
National Archives UK

Letter from Sir James Craig to the Prime Minister

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document, 29 July 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
National Archives UK

Letter from General Smuts to Eamon de Valera

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letter, 4 August 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
National Archives UK

Correspondence between Lloyd George and de Valera

document, 10 August 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
Houses of Oireachtas

Correspondence between de Valera and Lloyd George

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debate, 14 September 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
Google Arts and Culture

Instructions to Plenipotentiaries from Cabinet

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document, 7 October 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
Google Arts and Culture

Memorandum from Arthur Griffith to de Valera on Ulster

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document, 8 November 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Civil War

TV programme, 1980
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Irish Civil War
RTE

How the Treaty debate changed Irish politics forever

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article, 2021
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Reaction to Treaty
YouTube - RTE

Anglo-Irish Treaty signed 100 years ago today

video clip, 2021
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
RTE

Peace by Ordeal: How the Treaty was signed

open_in_new
article, 2021
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
Irish Film Institute

Irish peace imperilled by extremists

newsreel, December 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Reaction to Treaty

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Erskine Childers

photograph & RIA Biography
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Anglo-Irish Truce, Irish Civil War, Reaction to Treaty
Wikimedia

Arthur Griffith

photograph & RIA Biography
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Rise of Sinn Féin, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
YouTube - RTE/BBC

THE TREATY (1991 Drama)

video, 1991
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
Irish Film Institute

Peace Council at the Palace

newsreel, December 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty
Hansard

Andrew Bonar Law – Irish Free State Debate

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debate, 15 December 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Reaction to Treaty
Houses of Oireachtas

De Valera’s alternative to the Treaty

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debate, 15 December 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Reaction to Treaty
Houses of Oireachtas

Dáil Éireann debate on the Treaty

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debate, 19 December 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Reaction to Treaty
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion – Treaty Debates

video clip, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Reaction to Treaty
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Michael Collins and Cathal Brugha

video clip, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War, Irish Civil War
UCD

Richard Mulcahy

Photograph & RIA Biography
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Irish Civil War
Wikimedia

Cathal Brugha

postcard & RIA Biography
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War, Reaction to Treaty
RTE

The Provisional Government of the Irish Free State

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article, 2022
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act
YouTube - RTE

Ango-Irish Treaty ratified 100 years ago today

video clip, 2022
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Reaction to Treaty
Irish Film Institute

The Surrender of Dublin Castle

newsreel, January 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
Houses of Oireachtas

Dáil debates Treaty: Collins proposes a Provisional Government

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debate, 3 January 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Reaction to Treaty
Houses of Oireachtas

Dáil debates Treaty: Eamon de Valera resigns

open_in_new
debate, 9 January 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Reaction to Treaty
Houses of Oireachtas

Election of new president of Dáil Éireann

open_in_new
debate, 10 January 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Reaction to Treaty
Bureau of Military History

The Minister of Defence orders that the Convention be not held

newsletter, 31 March 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War, Reaction to Treaty
Bureau of Military History

The True Position of the Army

newsletter, 22 April 1922
Topics:Categories Irish Civil War, Reaction to Treaty
Irish Film Institute

British Evacuate after Hundreds of Years of Occupation

newsreel, May 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
Houses of Oireachtas

Cmdt. Sean O’Hegarty addresses Dáil Éireann

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speech, 3 May 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
National Archives UK

Cabinet Memorandum. Ireland.  

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document, 16 May 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War, Reaction to Treaty
Houses of Oireachtas

The National Situation – Cmdt. Seán O’Hegarty

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speech, 3 May 1922
Topics:Categories Irish Civil War
National Archives UK

Cabinet Memorandum. The Irish Situation.

open_in_new
document, 30 May 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
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
National Archives UK

Cabinet Memorandum- Ireland. Draft Constitution.

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document, 16 June 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
National Archives UK

King’s Speech – opening of NI Parliament

speech, 22 June 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Truce
Bureau of Military History

The Third Dáil

newsletter, 24 June 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
Irish Film Institute

Battle of the Four Courts

newsreel, June 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
Google Arts & Culture

War News No.3- Anti-Treaty Newsletter

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newsletter, 30 June 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
National Archives UK

Cabinet Memorandum. Ireland – Capture of Four Courts.

open_in_new
document, 30 June 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
Bureau of Military History

The Big Advance

newsletter, 22 July 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
Irish Film Institute

Mopping Up

newsreel, 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Irish Civil War

video clip, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
Houses of Oireachtas

Dáil Debate: executions of four IRA leaders

open_in_new
speech, 8 December 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
National Archives UK

Cabinet Memorandum – Ireland (Draft Constitution)

open_in_new
document, 1 June 1922
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War
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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