Irish history from 1914 to 1924

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  • Home Rule

    Home Rule
    Ever since the Act of Union created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1800, there had been movements to repeal it. So the Irish want to be independent from the British. The Home Rule Bill would quaranteed a measure of political autonomy to Ireland and received royal assent in Sptember 1914, but its operation was suspended until after the war. But many Irish nationalists began to doubt if it ever would be implemented.

  • Easter Rising

    Easter Rising
    The Easter Rising was a rebellion by Irish Republicans to win independence from Britain from Easter Monday (24th April) to 30th April 1916. The British government suspended the Home Rule bill because of the war, that angered many Nationalists. The rebels included members of the Irish Volunteer under Patrick Pearse. But the authorities send a lot of soldiers, so the leaders of the rebellion were forced to accept the only terms being offered by the British: unconditional surrender.

  • Sinn Féin

    Sinn Féin
    It is an irish-republican party. At the Easter Rising 1916, it was at first a violent movement and developed under direction of Éamon de Valera to the leading organisation of the Irish movement of national self-determination. 1919 it proclaimed the first Irish Parliament, the Dáil Éireann.

  • Dáil Éireann

    Dáil Éireann
    is the House of Common of the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland. This Parliament is also known under the name "First Dáil",herefrom it developed the War of Independence and the first Dividing of Ireland. The First and the Second Dáil weren´t recognized by the British Law. Only the Third Dáil, which was dailed under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, was regarded as a kind of transition of Commons.

  • IRA

    IRA
    The old Irish Republican Army was created from the combination of part of the Irish Volunteers with the union Irish Citizens Army militiar after the Easter Rising of 1916, and was the military part of the Irish independence movement.
    The IRA waged to 1921 war against the British occupation.
    It has been forbidden in both parts of Ireland.
    The Irish Prime Minister Arthur Griffith continued to pressure the British Government on 28 June 1922 for the first time the army against the IRA.

  • Anglo-Irish War = War of Independence

    Anglo-Irish War = War of Independence
    The War begun as Irish MPs met in Dublin and declared independence from Britain.The IRA fighted against the British government in Ireland. In July 1921 the War ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Micheal Collins was the maindiving force behind the independence movement. As the minister of Finance in the republic`s government, he provided the IRA money and arms. Also he organised a secret service, "the Squad", which killed British agents. Èamon de valera was President of the Republic of Ireland.

  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    Day of violence in Ireland, during the Irish War of Independence. In total, 31 people were killed.
    The day began with an Irish Republican Army (IRA) operation that led to fourteen deaths. Later that afternoon, British forces opened fire on the crowd at a Gaelic football match in Croke Park, killing fourteen irish cilivians. That evening, three IRA prisioners in Dublin Castle were beaten and killed by their British captors, allegedlywhilst trying to escape.

  • Government of Ireland Act/Partition of Ireland

    Government of Ireland Act/Partition of Ireland
    The Government of Ireland Act of 23 December 1920 was the second law of the British Parliament for the creation of Home Rule in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is also as 4th Home Rule bill known.
    The law, introduced by the government of David Lloyd George, divied Ireland into two regions: Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, should receive both an independent government. Southern Irelandincluded the whole island, apart from the 6 counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh

  • Anglo-Irish Treaty

    Anglo-Irish Treaty
    Anglo-Irish Treaty was a treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the de facto Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence. The treaty divided Ireland into 26 counties of the (independent) Irish Free State and the six counties of (british) Nothern Ireland. It was the end of the Anglo-Irish War, but the beginning of the Irish Civil War.

  • Irish Civil War

    Irish Civil War
    until April 1923. War between the Free State Forces, who supported the Anglo Irish Treaty and the Republicans, who were against the Treaty. The War was won by the Free State Forces. Republicans were adherer of De Valera, the Free State Force of Collins. Collins planed a convoy to stop the fight. There was a ambuscade at that he was killed.