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Northern Ireland
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The Easter Rising
Organised by seven members of the IRB, who took over the general post office.
Lasted for six days.
Members of the Irish volunteers, ICA and Cumann na mBan seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the Irish Republic independent from Great Britain.
The British superiority in numbers and weapons resulted in the unconditional surrender, agreed by Patrick Pearse (leader of the -IV), on the 29th of April. -
The Irish General Election
Three choices during the vote. Sinn Fein, Nationalist Party, Ulster Unionists.
As a first in Irish history the National revolutionists are supported by the majority of catholics.
They win by a majority vote, except in Ulster.
Sinn Fein refuses to go to London and establishes their own parliament, police force, courts and their own army, the IRA. -
The Irish War of Independence
- After the Irish general election in 1918 when the Sinn Fein party won, two police men were killed the same day as the Dail was founded and the independence of Ireland was proclaimed.
- In september 1919 the British goverment outlawed the Dail and the Sinn Fein party. And thereafter the conflict intensified
- For the next two years a guerilla war was carried out between IRA and the British Army.
- In 1921 a group of Sinn Fein and IRA members went to London, where they agreed to a ceasefire.
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The Anglo-Irish Treaty
- This treaty ended British rule in most of Ireland.
- After a 10 month transitional period overseen by a provisional government, the Irish Free State was created.
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The Irish Free State
- On the day, the Irish Free State was established, it comprised the entire island of Ireland.
- But northern Ireland immediately exercised its right under the treaty to tremove itself from the new state.
- The Free State came to an end in 1937.
