Ireland from Home Rule to Brexit Clarisse Coudon

  • Charles Parnell

    Charles Parnell
    • He was nationalist and he failed to have the home rule bill voted into a law
  • First Irish Home Rule Bill

    First Irish Home Rule Bill
    • It has been intoduced by British Prime Minister Gladstone
    • But it has been rejected by the House of Commons and has never been introduced in the House of Lords
  • Second Irish Home Rule Bill

    Second Irish Home Rule Bill
    • This 2nd attempt was also made by Gladstone
    • It was passed by the House of Commons but vetoed by the House of Lords
  • John Redmond

    John Redmond
    • He has been elected as the Irish Parliamentary Party Leader
  • Herbert Asquith

    Herbert Asquith
    • He has been elected as the Liberal Party leader
  • Third Home Rule

    Third Home Rule
    • The alliance between the Irish Parliament Party and the Liberal Party introduced the Home Rule for the third time
    • Finally, the House of Lords accepted it because they could no longer refuse it (they had already refused it twice before)
  • WW1

    WW1
    • The Third Home Rule Bill has been suspended because of the first World War
  • Tensions in Ireland

    Tensions in Ireland
    • In Ulster, there were differences between each county :
    • Donegal, Cavan and Monhagan were nationalists and in favor of independence while the other counties were in favor of the britain monarchy
  • Easter Rising beginning

    Easter Rising beginning
    • It took place in Dublin city center and lasted for 6 days.
    • The Irish volunteers, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Citizen Army were opposed to the Royal Army and constabulery.
    • The aims of easter Rising were the establishment of an independent Republic of Ireland and the end of British Rule in Ireland
  • Easter Rising end

    Easter Rising end
    • It ended when the Nationalist leaders gave up under the pressure of the British Army
  • End of WW1

    End of WW1
  • General Elections

    General Elections
    • Sinn Fein Party (nationalist and republican party) won more votes than the Irish Parliamentary Party, a huge achievement for the party
    • They wanted an independent Irish Republic
  • Declaration of Irish Independence

    Declaration of Irish Independence
    • Ireland issued its own declaration of independence but Great Britain did not help draft it
  • Beginning of the Irish War of Independence

    Beginning of the Irish War of Independence
    • The Declaration of Irish Independence led to the Irish War of Independence
  • End of the Irish War of Independence

    End of the Irish War of Independence
    • The Anglo-Irish Treaty led to the end of the Irish War of Independence
  • Anglo-Irish Treaty

    Anglo-Irish Treaty
    • It has been signed by the Irish Republican Army leader Collins and the principal founder of the Sinn Féin Party, Griffith.
    • It established two new political entities :
    • the Irish Free State, which was composed of 26 counties and was granted autonomous status within the British Empire
    • Northern Ireland, made up of six counties (sometimes called the province of Ulster) which remained part of the United Kingdom
    • Governments have been separated and british one has been delocated in Belfast
  • Beginning of the Irish Civil War

    Beginning of the Irish Civil War
    • The Anglo-Irish treaty split the Irish Republican Army into two groups :
    • one (under Collins’s leadership) supporting the treaty
    • the other (under de Valera’s leadership) opposing it
    • The first group became the official Irish Free State Army, and the second group, called “Irregulars,” began to organize armed resistance against the new independent government.
    • They fought for different visions of a free and independent Ireland
  • End of the Irish Civil War

    It ended with the defeat of the anti-treaty forces.