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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

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

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
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

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 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
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland: The Rising

TV programme, 1980
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising, Easter Rising Aftermath, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags 1916 Proclamation, British Army, courts martial, Dublin, Eamon de Valera, Éamonn Ceannt, enlistment, Eoin MacNeill, executions, First World War, GPO, Home Rule, internment, IRB, Irish Nationalism, Irish Volunteers, James Connolly, John Redmond, Joseph Plunkett, National Volunteers, Patrick Pearse, police, Sean MacDermott, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Clarke
RTE Archives

The Easter Rising

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video clip, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Keywords:Tags British Army, Cathal Brugha, Cumann na mBan, Dublin, Eamon de Valera, Éamonn Ceannt, Easter Rising, GPO, Irish Citizen Army, Irish Volunteers, James Connolly, Patrick Pearse, Roger Casement
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: The Fighting of Easter Week

video clip, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Keywords:Tags 1916 Proclamation, Aud, British Army, Castle document, Countess Markievicz, Dublin, Easter Rising, Eoin MacNeill, gun-running, Helga, Irish Volunteers, James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett, killings, Patrick Geoghegan, Patrick Pearse, Sean MacDermott, surrender, Tom Clarke
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

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Rounding up the Rebels

photograph, April 1916
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Aftermath Keywords:Tags British Army, Dublin, Dublin Castle, Easter Rising, Irish Volunteers, prisoners

IWM

Irish Surrender Document

document, 29 April 1916
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Keywords:Tags British Army, Easter Rising, James Connolly, Patrick Pearse, surrender
Easter 1916 An tÓglách Accounts

An tÓgláċ The Defence of the G.P.O. Accounts

article, 1926
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Keywords:Tags British Army, Dublin, Easter Rising, GPO, Irish Volunteers, James Connolly

National Museums Ireland

Official communique from Dublin Castle

document, 29 April 1916
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Keywords:Tags British Army, Countess Markievicz, Dublin, Germany, James Connolly, Patrick Pearse, Roger Casement, Sinn Féin
National Archives

The Courts-martial of the 1916 leaders

article, 2019
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Aftermath Keywords:Tags British Army, British government, courts martial, Éamonn Ceannt, Easter Rising, executions, Fearghal McGarry, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, General John Maxwell, Herbert Asquith, ICA, IRA, IRB, James Connolly, Patrick Pearse, Roger Casement, Sean MacDermott, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Clarke

IWM

Proclamation of Martial Law

poster, 25 April 1916
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Keywords:Tags British Army, Dublin, Dublin Castle, Easter Rising, Lord Wimbourne, martial law, police
UCD History Hub

The Easter Rising (The Irish Revolution Lecture 4)

podcast, 2014
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Keywords:Tags Augustine Birrell, British Army, courts martial, Dublin, Dublin Castle, Eamon de Valera, Éamonn Ceannt, Easter Rising, executions, GPO, James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett, Michael Laffan, Patrick Pearse, Roger Casement, Sean MacDermott, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Clarke

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
Irish Film Institute

Daily Terror in Ireland

newsreel, October 1920
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War Keywords:Tags Anglo-Irish war, British Army, Dublin, IRA
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
UCD History Hub

The Irish Civil War (Irish Revolution Lecture 10)

podcast, 2014
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Irish Civil War Keywords:Tags Ambush, anti-treaty forces, assassination, British Army, Cathal Brugha, Collins de Valera pact, Dáil Éireann, Dublin, Eamon de Valera, Ernest Blythe, Erskine Childers, executions, Field Marshall Henry Wilson, Four Courts, guerilla warfare, IRA, Liam Lynch, Limerick, Michael Collins, Michael Laffan, Nationalists, pro-treaty forces, Provisional Government, Republicans, Richard Mulcahy, Rory O'Connor, Sinn Féin, W. T. Cosgrave, Waterford

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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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