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    • Easter Rising
    • Easter Rising Aftermath
    • Rise of Sinn Féin
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RTE YouTube

Conscription & Ireland, 1916-1918

video clip, 2018
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI, Rise of Sinn Féin Keywords:Tags British Army, conscription crisis, First World War, Keith Jeffery
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
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
Daily Telegraph

First Bloodshed in Ireland

newspaper, 27 July 1914
Topics:Categories The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14 Keywords:Tags British Army, gun-running, Howth, Irish Volunteers, killings
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

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
BBC- Voices 16

Thomas Kettle’s dilemma

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

Continuance of Martial Law – John Dillon

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debate, 11 May 1916
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Aftermath Keywords:Tags British Army, British government, courts martial, Easter Rising, executions, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, General John Maxwell, Herbert Asquith, House of Commons, IPP, John Dillon, martial law, 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

National Museums Ireland

Thomas Clarke, 1916 / death certificate

certificate, 2 June 1916
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Aftermath Keywords:Tags British Army, courts martial, Easter Rising, executions, Tom Clarke

National Museums Ireland

The last letter written by Seán Mac Diarmada (Sean MacDermott)

letter, 11 May 1916
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Aftermath Keywords:Tags British Army, Easter Rising, executions, Kilmainham Gaol, Sean MacDermott
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
RTE - YouTube

36th Ulster Division and the Somme

video clip, 2016
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags 36th Ulster Division, British Army, First World War, Somme
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
Youtube RTE

How the Conscription Crisis Changed Irish Politics

video clip, 2019
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Rise of Sinn Féin Keywords:Tags Alvin Jackson, British Army, conscription crisis, First World War, Irish Nationalism, John Redmond, Sinn Féin
National Archives

Application of Military Service Act to Ireland

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document, 26 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, War Cabinet
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
The Irish Times

Sinn Féin and the conscription crisis

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article, 2018
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Rise of Sinn Féin Keywords:Tags Arthur Griffith, British Army, British government, Cardinal Logue, Catholic church, conscription crisis, First World War, German Plot, IPP, John Dillon, John Redmond, Labour Party, Military Service Bill, Sinn Féin, T.P. O'Connor, Walter Long

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Ireland’s Solemn League and Covenant: Anti-conscription protest form

document, April 1918
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Rise of Sinn Féin Keywords:Tags Arthur Griffith, British Army, British government, Cardinal Logue, conscription crisis, Eamon de Valera, John Dillon, Joseph Devlin, Military Service Bill
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 Keywords:Tags Andrew Bonar Law, Arthur Balfour, Arthur Griffith, Austen Chamberlain, British Army, Catholic church, conscription crisis, David Lloyd George, Eamon de Valera, First World War, Government of Ireland Act, Home Rule Bill, Lord Curzon, Nationalists, Unionists, Walter Long, War Cabinet
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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