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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
    • Anglo-Irish Truce
    • Anglo-Irish Treaty
    • Reaction to the Treaty
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    • Government of Ireland Act
  • Northern Ireland 1921–25
    • Challenges facing NI government
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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
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 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

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
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
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

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
RTE

Peace by Ordeal: How the Treaty was signed

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article, 2021
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty Keywords:Tags Anglo-Irish treaty, Arthur Griffith, Austen Chamberlain, British Army, David Lloyd George, Diarmaid Ferriter, Eamon de Valera, Erskine Childers, external association, General Jan Smuts, IRA, James Craig, Lord Birkenhead, Michael Collins, negotiations, Partition, plenipotentiaries, Robert Barton, Sinn Féin, Winston Churchill
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
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 Keywords:Tags Anglo-Irish treaty, anti-treaty forces, British Army, British government, Dáil Éireann, Eamon de Valera, Irregulars, Michael Collins, pro-treaty forces, Provisional Government, Regulars, Southern Unionists, Winston Churchill

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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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