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48  INTRODUCING IRELAND

War and Independence

Plans for Irish home rule were shelved because of World War I;
however, the abortive Easter Rising of 1916 inspired new
support for the Republican cause. In 1919 an unofficial Irish
Parliament was established and a war began against the
“occupying” British forces. The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921
divided the island in two, granting independence to the
Irish Free State, while Northern Ireland remained in the Ireland in 1922
United Kingdom. There followed a civil war between Northern Ireland
pro-Treaty and anti-Treaty factions in the South. Irish Free State
The Unionist Party
Leader of the campaign
against Home Rule was
Dublin barrister Edward
Carson. In 1913 the
Ulster Volunteer Force
was formed to demand
that six counties in Ulster Sean J Heuston Major John McBride
remain part of the UK. Thomas McDonough

The 1916 Service Medal,
issued to all who fought in
the Easter Rising, depicts,
on one side, the mythical
Irish warrior
Cúchulainn.

William Pearse Patrick Pearse, a
poet, read the
Proclamation of the
The Black and Tans Republic from the
steps of the GPO on
Named for their makeshift uniforms, Easter Monday.
these British troops – mostly demobbed
World War I soldiers – carried out savage
reprisals against the Irish in 1920–21.
1913 General strike 1918 Sinn Féin wins 73 seats at 1919 First
The Titanic in Dublin Westminster; Constance Markievicz meeting of the 1922 Irish Free State
elected first woman MP independent inaugurated; Michael
1912 Belfast-built parliament Collins shot dead in
Titanic sinks on her 1916 Easter (Dáil Éireann) ambush in Co Cork
maiden voyage Rising quashed
1905 1910 1915 1920
1912 Edward Carson rallies Ulster 1920 Government of
1905 Sinn Féin Protestants; solemn covenant to defeat Ireland Act proposes
(We Ourselves) Home Rule signed by 471,414 people partition of the island
party founded 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; de
1904 Dublin’s Abbey Despatch bag carried by Constance Valera resigns; southern Ireland
Theatre opens Markievicz during Easter Rising plunged into civil war

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