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    1914–18
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  • Third Home Rule Bill Crisis
    • Background to the Home Rule Crisis
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    • Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14
    • Reaction to the Home Rule Act
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    • Easter Rising
    • Easter Rising Aftermath
    • Rise of Sinn Féin
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RTE Youtube

Ireland’s War-time Recruitment Explained

video clip, 2016
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags British Army, First World War, Nationalists, recruitment, Unionists
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Ulster will fight

TV programme, 1980
Topics:Categories The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Background to the Home Rule Crisis, Opposition to Home Rule, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14 Keywords:Tags 1910 general election, Arthur Griffith, British Army, Conservative Party, Curragh Incident, Edward Carson, Exclusion of Ulster, Gaelic League, Gaelic Revival, gun-running, Herbert Asquith, Home Rule, IPP, IRB, James Connolly, Liberal Party, National Volunteers, Parliament Act, Sinn Féin, Third Home Rule Bill, Ulster Unionists, UVF
UCD History Hub

The Home Rule Party (The Irish Revolution Lecture 2)

podcast, 2014
Topics:Categories The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Responsibility for Home Rule Crisis, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14 Keywords:Tags Andrew Bonar Law, British Army, British government, Buckingham Palace Conference, Conservative Party, Curragh Incident, David Lloyd George, Easter Rising, Edward Carson, Exclusion of Ulster, Herbert Asquith, Home Rule opposition, House of Lords, Hubert Gough, IPP, John Dillon, John Redmond, King George V, Liberal Party, Lord Landsdowne, Michael Laffan, Nationalists, Parliament Act, Partition, Southern Unionists, Third Home Rule Bill, Ulster Unionists, UVF, Winston Churchill

Decade of Centenaries timeline

WWI Recruitment poster – Mr John Redmond MP

poster, 1914
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags British Army, enlistment, First World War, John Redmond, National Volunteers, Nationalists, recruitment

Decade of Centenaries timeline

WWI Recruitment poster – “I’ll go too!”

poster, 1914
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags British Army, enlistment, First World War, recruitment
RTE Century Ireland

Ireland’s Opportunity? The First World War & 1916

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article, 2016
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags British Army, British government, Bulmer Hobson, Éamonn Ceannt, Easter Rising, Edward Carson, Eoin MacNeill, First World War, Gaelic League, gun-running, Herbert Asquith, Home Rule Bill, House of Commons, IPP, IRB, Irish Volunteers, John Redmond, Joseph Plunkett, Liberal Party, National Volunteers, Nationalists, Patrick Pearse, Roger Casement, Sean MacDermott, Thomas MacDonagh, UVF
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 Keywords:Tags Andrew Bonar Law, Anglo-Irish treaty, Boundary Commission, British Army, Buckingham Palace Conference, Conservative Party, Curragh Incident, Edward Carson, First World War, Government of Ireland Act, Herbert Asquith, Home Rule, James Craig, King George V, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland parliament, Partition, Patrick Geoghegan, Ulster Unionist Party, UVF
RTE Century Ireland

The Curragh Crisis

article, 2014
Topics:Categories The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14 Keywords:Tags British Army, British government, Curragh Incident, General Arthur Paget, gun-running, Home Rule opposition, Hubert Gough, Irish Volunteers, RIC, UVF
RTE YouTube

Ireland at War: Who joins up and Why?

video clip, 2016
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags British Army, First World War, Nationalists, recruitment, Unionists
UCD History Hub

John Redmond’s Woodenbridge speech and the split in the Irish Volunteers

podcast, c.2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags British Army, Conor Mulvagh, Eoin MacNeill, First World War, gun-running, Home Rule, IPP, Irish Volunteers, John Redmond, UVF, Woodenbridge speech
RTE Archives

Ireland and the Great War

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exhibition, 2014
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags British Army, enlistment, First World War, Flanders, John Redmond, Mons, recruitment
BBC- Voices 16

Enemies Unite

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video clip, 2016
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags British Army, First World War, National Volunteers, UVF

NLI 1916

Leaflet urging Irish National Volunteers to join British army

poster, 1914-16
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags British Army, enlistment, First World War, IPP, National Volunteers, recruitment, Tom Kettle
RTE Century Ireland

Chronology of the Easter Rising

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article, 2016
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Keywords:Tags Augustine Birrell, British Army, Bulmer Hobson, Easter Rising, Eoin MacNeill, IRB, Irish Volunteers, Patrick Pearse, RIC, Roger Casement
The Irish Times

The North and 1918

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article, 2018
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Rise of Sinn Féin Keywords:Tags 1918 general election, British Army, Cardinal Logue, constitutional nationalists, Eamon de Valera, Edward Carson, House of Commons, IPP, Irish Convention, John Dillon, Joseph Devlin, Nationalists, Representation of the People Act, Sinn Féin, Southern Unionists, Ulster Unionist Council, Ulster Unionists, Unionists, UVF
National Archives

Ireland – Compulsory Military Service

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document, 27 March 1918
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Rise of Sinn Féin Keywords:Tags British Army, British government, conscription crisis, David Lloyd George, General Bryan Mahon, General Byrne, Military Service Bill, Nationalists, RIC, War Cabinet
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: War of Independence

video clip, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War Keywords:Tags Anglo-Irish war, assassination, Black and Tans, Bloody Sunday, British Army, Dáil Éireann, David Lloyd George, Eamon de Valera, First Dáil, flying columns, guerilla warfare, hunger strike, IRA, Kevin Barry, killings, Michael Collins, Patrick Geoghegan, Republican Courts, RIC, Soloheadbeg, Terence MacSwiney, Tom Barry, Tomas MacCurtain, Walter Long

IWM

The IRA suspects lined up outside barracks after a roundup

photograph, 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War Keywords:Tags British Army, IRA, prisoners, RIC
National Archives UK

The Irish Situation – April 1920

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document, 3 April 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War Keywords:Tags Andrew Bonar Law, British Army, David Lloyd George, Edward Carson, guerilla warfare, IRA, Lord French, police, RIC, Sinn Féin, Walter Long
Decade of Centenaries timeline

Five Men Shot Dead in Derry

newspaper cutting, 17 June 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War Keywords:Tags British Army, Derry, IRA, riots, Unionists, UVF

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Black and Tans on patrol in Dublin

photograph, 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War Keywords:Tags Black and Tans, British Army, Dublin, police, RIC
History Ireland

The burning of Cork, December 1920

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article, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War Keywords:Tags Anglo-Irish war, Black and Tans, British Army, Burning of Cork City, fire brigade, IRA, Michael Collins, police, reprisals, RIC, Sinn Féin, Tom Barry
National Archives UK

Terms of the Armstice

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document, 9 July 1921
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Truce Keywords:Tags Anglo-Irish treaty, Anglo-Irish war, British Army, British government, RIC, 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 Keywords:Tags Anglo-Irish treaty, Arthur Balfour, Austen Chamberlain, British Army, British government, Council of Ireland, Eamon de Valera, James Craig, Northern Ireland, oath of allegiance, RIC

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  • 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
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