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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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    • Reaction to the Treaty
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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 Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, Ambush, Anglo-Irish war, armed raids, IRA, Irish Volunteers, RIC

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 Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, Belfast Boycott, Dáil Éireann, discrimination, economy, sectarianism, Sinn Féin

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 Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, Belfast, discrimination, sectarianism
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 Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, Anglo-Irish war, Home Rule, IRA, killings, sectarianism, Sinn Féin, USC, UVF
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 Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, Anglo-Irish treaty, Boundary Commission, Irish Free State, James Craig, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland parliament, police, RUC, Ulster Unionists, USC
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Civil War

TV programme, 1980
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Irish Civil War Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, Anglo-Irish treaty, anti-treaty forces, Arthur Griffith, assassination, Boundary Commission, British Army, Cathal Brugha, Collins de Valera pact, Dáil Éireann, David Lloyd George, Dublin Castle, Eamon de Valera, Erskine Childers, executions, Field Marshall Henry Wilson, Four Courts, IRA, Irish Free State, Irregulars, James Craig, Kevin O'Higgins, Liam Lynch, Michael Collins, National Army, oath of allegiance, Partition, pro-treaty forces, Regulars, riots, Rory O'Connor, sectarianism, treaty talks, W. T. Cosgrave

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 Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, Belfast, British Army, curfew, Northern Ireland, Restoration of Order Act
PRONI

Open Divisional Commissioner’s bi-monthly report

document, 15 February 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, Belfast, Fermanagh, IRA, kidnapping, killings, police, RIC, riots, sectarianism, USC

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 Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, Belfast, police
PRONI

Churchill’s telegram to Craig no.60

telegram, 24 March 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, Arthur Griffith, boundary question, British Army, James Craig, killings, Michael Collins, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland government, sectarianism, Winston Churchill
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 Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, Civil Authorities Special Powers Act, internment, Northern Ireland 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 Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, arson, Belfast, fire brigade
County Down Outrages
Down County Museum

County Down Outrages

newspaper cutting, 3 June 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government Keywords:Tags 1920-22 Troubles, IRA, police, RUC, USC

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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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