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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
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Irish Nationalism

video clip, 2015
Topics:Categories The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Background to the Home Rule Crisis, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14 Keywords:Tags Conservative Party, Edward Carson, First World War, Herbert Asquith, Home Rule, Home Rule opposition, House of Commons, House of Lords, Irish Nationalism, Irish Volunteers, John Dillon, John Redmond, King George V, Liberal Party, National Volunteers, Parliament Act, Patrick Geoghegan, Third Home Rule Bill, Ulster Covenant, Ulster Day
YouTube - RTE

Ireland 1912-1916: An Animated History from Home Rule to Easter Rising

video clip, 2016
Topics:Categories The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Background to the Home Rule Crisis, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14 Keywords:Tags Buckingham Palace Conference, Easter Rising, Edward Carson, First World War, Herbert Asquith, Home Rule, Home Rule Bill, Irish Nationalism, Irish Volunteers, Liberal Party, Ulster Covenant, Ulster Unionists, UVF
Youtube

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
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
Irish Independent 1916 Collection

Assembling Armies and Acquiring Arms

article, 2015
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Opposition to Home Rule, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14 Keywords:Tags Augustine Birrell, Conor Mulvagh, Dublin Castle, Easter Rising, Edward Carson, Eoin MacNeill, First World War, gun-running, Home Rule, IPP, IRB, Irish Citizen Army, Irish Volunteers, John Redmond, Joseph Plunkett, Patrick Pearse, RIC, Thomas MacDonagh, UVF
Irish Independent 1916 collection

Asquith’s Flawed Irish Compromise

article, 2016
Topics:Categories The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Background to the Home Rule Crisis, Opposition to Home Rule, Responsibility for Home Rule Crisis, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14 Keywords:Tags 1910 general election, Andrew Bonar Law, David Lloyd George, Edward Carson, Exclusion of Ulster, First World War, Herbert Asquith, Home Rule, House of Lords, IPP, John Redmond, Liberal Party, Parliament Act, Partition, Ronan Fanning, Third Home Rule Bill, Ulster Unionists, 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
BBC - Story of Ireland

Story of Ireland: Irish soldiers in WWI

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video clip, 2012
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags First World War, Home Rule, IPP, John Redmond

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

Wikimedia Commons

John Redmond Inspecting the National Volunteers

photograph, c. September 1914
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags First World War, IPP, Irish Volunteers, John Redmond, National Volunteers
RTE YouTube

British policy, Ireland & the Outbreak of War 

video clip, 2014
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI, The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14 Keywords:Tags First World War, Home Rule, Home Rule Bill, Ronan Fanning
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
RTE Century Ireland

Home Rule for Ireland receives Royal Assent

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article, 2014
Topics:Categories The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14 Keywords:Tags First World War, Government of Ireland Act, Home Rule Bill, House of Commons, House of Lords, John Redmond, King George V, Nationalists

Library of Congress

Irish Home Rule Delayed a Year

newspaper cutting, 15 September 1914
Topics:Categories The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14 Keywords:Tags Exclusion of Ulster, First World War, Herbert Asquith, House of Commons, House of Lords, Third Home Rule Bill
IWM

Ireland’s Role in the First World War

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article, 2018
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags 10th Irish Division, 16th Irish Division, 36th Ulster Division, Easter Rising, First World War, Flanders, Gallipoli, Somme, Ypres
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
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

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
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
Youtube RTE

British Policy and the 1916 Rising

video clip, 2016
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Keywords:Tags British government, Dáil Éireann, David Lloyd George, Easter Rising, executions, First World War, Herbert Asquith, Roger Casement, Ronan Fanning, Sinn Féin, Southern Unionists
Youtube RTE

1916: How the Rising changed Irish political life

video clip, 2016
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Easter Rising Aftermath Keywords:Tags arrests, British government, constitutional nationalists, Easter Rising, executions, Fearghal McGarry, First World War, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Home Rule, internment, IPP, Sinn Féin
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
RTE Century Ireland

Between armed rebellion and democratic revolution: the Irish Question in 1917

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article, 2017
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Rise of Sinn Féin Keywords:Tags 1917 by-elections, British government, conscription crisis, David Lloyd George, Dublin Castle, Eamon de Valera, Easter Rising, Edward Carson, First World War, Home Rule, IPP, Irish Convention, John Dillon, John Redmond, Joseph Devlin, Nationalists, Partition, release of prisoners, Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin convention, Thomas Ashe, Unionists
Youtube - IWM

The Irish on the Western Front

newsreel, c. 1917
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI Keywords:Tags 16th Irish Division, 36th Ulster Division, Connaught Rangers, First World War, Western Front

National Portrait Gallery

Edward Carson

Painting & RIA Biography
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Ireland during WWI, The crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill, Background to the Home Rule Crisis, Opposition to Home Rule, Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14, Unionist Opposition to Home Rule Keywords:Tags biography, Edward Carson, First World War, Home Rule, Home Rule opposition, Partition, Third Home Rule Bill, Ulster Unionists, Unionists
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
Youtube RTE

How Britain lost Ireland

video clip, 2017
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1914–18, Rise of Sinn Féin Keywords:Tags 1917 by-elections, British government, conscription crisis, David Lloyd George, Eamon de Valera, First World War, Home Rule, internment, IPP, Ronan Fanning, Sinn Féin
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

Home Rule : Government of Ireland Amendment Bill

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document, 23 April 1918
Topics:Categories Political Developments 1919–23, Government of Ireland Act Keywords:Tags Arthur Balfour, Austen Chamberlain, British government, David Lloyd George, First World War, Government of Ireland Act, Home Rule Bill, House of Commons, Irish Convention, Lord Curzon, Nationalists, Ulster Unionists, Unionists, Walter Long, War Cabinet
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

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  • Dáil Éireann,
  • Eamon de Valera,
  • Easter Rising,
  • Edward Carson,
  • Eoin MacNeill,
  • executions,
  • First World War,
  • Government of Ireland Act,
  • Herbert Asquith,
  • Home Rule,
  • Home Rule opposition,
  • House of Commons,
  • IPP,
  • IRA,
  • IRB,
  • Irish Free State,
  • Irish Volunteers,
  • James Connolly,
  • James Craig,
  • John Redmond,
  • Michael Collins,
  • Nationalists,
  • Northern Ireland,
  • Northern Ireland government,
  • Partition,
  • Patrick Pearse,
  • pro-treaty forces,
  • RIC,
  • Sean MacDermott,
  • Sinn Féin,
  • Third Home Rule Bill,
  • Thomas MacDonagh,
  • Tom Clarke,
  • Ulster Unionists,
  • Unionists,
  • 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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