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World War 1
World war 1 begins, and the Irish still hadn’t gotten Home Rule. Because of the war, the Parties agreed that the problem of Home Rule would be set aside, until the war was over. The war lasted longer than expected, and by 1916 the Revolutionary Nationalists rejected that the problem could be solved by peaceful persuasion. -
Pass of Home Rule
The Parliamentary Nationalists was promised Home Rule, but the Unionists didn’t want an all-Ireland parliament. -
The Easter Rising
The Proclamtion of the Irish Republic was announced under the Easter Rising.
14 men lead by Tom Clarke (radical nationalist) took over the official post office in Dublin, and declaired Ireland a independent country. -
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The Irish war of Independence
The war of independence was between the Nationalists and the Unionists.
The Unionists were supported by the British Government. The war was mostly lead by common folk. The two opposing sides mainly consisted of citizens who volunteered to fight for or against Ireland being independent -
The Anglo-Irish Treaty
The leader of Sinn Fein and the british government agreed to divide Ireland into two seperate nations. Ireland and Nothern Ireland. -
The Irish Free State
Ireland became an independent state due to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Ireland got divided into two separete parts. The Irish Free state was the one part that was Catholic and also the part that got independent from Britain. The Irish Free state is all of Ireand except Ulster, which is in Northern Ireland. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was an incedent in Derry in Northern Ireland. The incedent occurred during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march. British soldiers shot 26 of the civil rights protesters, 14 were killed.
