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The Ulster Solemn League and Covenant – BBC Documentary

TV programme, 2012
Topics:Categories The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Background to the Home Rule Crisis, Opposition to Home Rule, Reaction to Home Rule Act Keywords:Tags 16th Irish Division, 36th Ulster Division, Buckingham Palace Conference, Edward Carson, First World War, Government of Ireland Act, gun-running, Herbert Asquith, Home Rule opposition, James Craig, John Redmond, Liberals, Northern Ireland, Partition, Southern Unionists, Third Home Rule Bill, Ulster Covenant, Ulster Day, Unionism, UVF, Winston Churchill
BBC Youtube

BBC’s: The Story of Ireland – Age of Nations

TV programme, 2012
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising, Easter Rising Aftermath, Ireland during WWI, Rise of Sinn Féin, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Anglo-Irish War, Irish Civil War, Reaction to Treaty, The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Background to the Home Rule Crisis, Opposition to Home Rule Keywords:Tags Anglo-Irish treaty, Anglo-Irish war, Black and Tans, courts martial, David Lloyd George, Easter Rising, Edward Carson, executions, First World War, Gaelic Revival, Home Rule, internment, IRA, IRB, Irish Citizen Army, Irish Republic, Irish Volunteers, James Craig, Michael Collins, Northern Ireland, Partition, Patrick Pearse, reprisals, RIC, Sinn Féin, Ulster Covenant, UVF
National Portrait Gallery

Ulster Unionist Leaders

photograph, 29 June 1920
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Establishment of NI government Keywords:Tags Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Edward Mervyn Archdale, Hugh MacDowell Pollack, James Craig, John Miller Andrews, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland government, Richard Dawson Bates
YouTube - RTE

Why did Edward Carson not become Northern Ireland’s Prime Minister?

video clip, 2021
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Establishment of NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish Treaty Keywords:Tags Alvin Jackson, Anglo-Irish treaty, Conservative Party, Edward Carson, Irish Free State, James Craig, Nationalists, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland government, Unionist Party

Decade of Centenaries timeline

USC at a police checkpoint

photograph, 1921
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government, Political Developments 1919–23, Anglo-Irish War Keywords:Tags Belfast, Northern Ireland, police, RIC, RUC, USC
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
British Academy

Political History of Northern Ireland since Partition

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Article, 1999
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, NI government rule 1921-25 Keywords:Tags Craig-Collins pact, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland government, Paul Bew
Catholic recruitment to USC
Bicycles, Barracks & Bandoliers

Memo regarding Catholic recruitment in the RUC and USC

memo, March 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government Keywords:Tags Catholic recruitment, Craig-Collins pact, Michael Collins, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland government, police, RIC, RUC, USC
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

PRONI

Northern Ireland Cabinet Conclusions – Unemployment

document, 01 April 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government Keywords:Tags Belfast, Craig-Collins pact, Derry, James Craig, Michael Collins, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland government, Unemployment

Decade of Centenaries timeline

A Proportional Represention

political cartoon, 1922
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government Keywords:Tags election, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland government, Proportional Representation
PRONI

NI Cabinet Conclusions – Unemployment Increase

document, 30 July 1923
Topics:Categories Northern Ireland 1921–25, Challenges facing NI government Keywords:Tags Colwyn Committee, James Craig, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland government, relief, Stanley Baldwin, Unemployment

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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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