Ireland

Question 1

Ireland pre course

Answer 1

-1800 the act of uninion
•abolished irelands separate parliament
•creates United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
-Anglian church established as the official state church in Ireland until 1869
-1845-51 potatoe blight
•1 mill died of starvation
-to kill the homerule with kindness
•loans for tennants to buy out the farms
-Irish republican brother hood
-scandal of Charles Parnell

Question 2

Ulster covenant

Answer 2

-by Edward Carson
-1912
-protesting against the 3rd home rule bill
-signed in own blood
- in 1914 the supporters smuggled 30,000 rifles and 3 mill rounds of amp to the port of larne

Question 3

Curragh mutiny

Answer 3

-March 1914
-1905 Sinn Fein signed wanting home rule
-British soldiers at the Curragh mutiny threatened to resign instead of supporting the Irish volunteers who wanted home rule
-ended by ww1

Question 4

Easter rising

Answer 4

-April 1916
- post office in Dublin
-450 died
-dlg negociated and only had north as part of uk, told redmond it was temporary

Question 5

Key groups

Answer 5

-Ulster volunteers
•Carson
•1912
•opposed home rule
-National volunteers
•home rule
-Irish volenteers
•disagreed to conscription
•eion MacNeill
•100,000 members in 1916
-Irish Republican brother hood
•dedicated to establish independent Ireland
•Patrick Pearce + Thomas Clarke
-Sinn Fein
•Arthur Griffith
•1905
•gained 73 seats in 1918
-IRA
•old Irish volunteers
•Michael Collins
-black and tans
•dlg

Question 6

Key figures

Answer 6

• John redmond
  •leader of Irish parliamentary party 1900-18
  -Edward Carson
  •uninionst who led ulster union 1912-14
  -Patrick Pearce
  •joined Irish volunteers helped plan
  easter rising
  -eoin MacNeill
  •part of 10,000 who broke away from Irish volunteers, disagreed with war participation
• eamon de Valera
  •imprisoned after Easter rising, American citizen, became presedanf of Sinn Fein
• micheal Collins
  •led IRA
  •signed treaty

Question 7

Rise of Sinn Fein

Answer 7

-1917 de Valera becomes Sinn Fein mp and head of Irish volenteers
-250,000 members by 1917
-British image ruined after conscription to Ireland in 1918+ eater rising
-a compaign against conscription
-refuse to go to Westminster

Question 8

Anglo- Irish treaty

Answer 8

-1919-21
-Sinn Fein illegal Aug 1919
-dlg calls IRÁ ‘a tiny murder gang’
-‘black and tans’ organised
-Jan 1919- July 1921 nearly 1000 died
-truce called July 1921
Michaela Collins forced to go to peace meetings and signs agreement
- Collins killed by Sinn Fein
- dec 1920 government of Ireland act allowed 2 parliaments
-stormont castle built summer 1922, Belfast
-Britain can still use Irish ports

Question 9

Bloody Sunday

Answer 9

-21 Nov 1920
-IRA killed 11 English citizens in streets as thought to be spies
-black and tans shoot on Gaelic football players and crowd in croke park
-12 died