Ireland

Question 1

Third Home Rule Bill

Answer 1

1912-13

Provoked opposition in Ulster

Question 2

Religious divide

Answer 2

Between 6 Protestant counties in the North and Catholic majority elsewhere

Question 3

British soldiers at Curragh mutinied

Answer 3

March 1914

Refused to enforce Home Rule on the North

Question 4

Ulster and National Volunteers clashed

Answer 4

July 1914
3 deaths
Home Rule was suspended until the next year
Then WWI was declared and Ireland entered the war without independence

Question 5

Easter Rising

Answer 5

24 - 29 April 1916

Question 6

Leader of the Easter Rising

Answer 6

Patrick Pearse (Head of the Irish Republican Brotherhood)

Question 7

British response to Easter Rising

Answer 7

Troop reinforcements
Declared martial law
Over 3000 arrested (1500 were imprisoned without trial)

Question 8

Execution of rebels after Easter Rising

Answer 8

May 1914 - 15 rebels (including Pearse) were executed under martial law

Question 9

Example of support for the Easter Rising across Ireland

Answer 9

County Meath - Royal Irish Constabulary killed

Wexford - towns were captured by Irish volunteers

Question 10

Effect of harsh British reprisals following Easter Rising

Answer 10

Nationalist concerns escalated - they now wanted full independence

Question 11

Arms supply ship intercepted coming from Germany

Answer 11

The Aud

Had been to aid an Irish revolution

Question 12

British civil servant who aided the Irish nationalists

Answer 12

Sir Roger Casement

Arrested exiting a German submarine

Question 13

General election in 1918

Answer 13

73 Sinn Fein MPs elected

Question 14

Sinn Fein MPs form the Dáil Eireann (revolutionary government)

Answer 14

January 1919
Declared an Irish Republic
Began a guerrilla war against the British
Led by de Valera

Question 15

IRA volunteers

Answer 15

100,000 at the beginning

Further 45,000 in 1921

Question 16

Government of Ireland Act

Answer 16

Also known as Irish Home Rule Bill
1920
Attempted to establish two separate governments (one in Dublin and one in Belfast)

Question 17

Reaction of the Dáil Eireann to Government of Ireland Act

Answer 17

Rejected it as they wanted complete independence without partitioning Ireland

Question 18

Blacks and Tans

Answer 18

January 1920
Sent to reinforce RIC
Incredibly brutal

Question 19

Martial law had been declared in X counties by Y

Answer 19

Martial law had been declared in 8 counties by 1921

Question 20

Example of Irish American support for Dáil Eireann

Answer 20

$5 million in cash

Question 21

Talks between British and Dáil Eireann began

Answer 21

October 1921

Question 22

Anglo-Irish Treaty

Answer 22

Signed 6 December 1921 
Created Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion 
6 northern counties opted out 
de Valera refused to accept the Treaty 
Effective 1922

Question 23

Civil war in Ireland largely ended

Answer 23

1923

Question 24

Ireland formally became a republic

Answer 24

1937

Question 25

Republic of Ireland Act

Answer 25

1948

Cut all links with Britain / the Commonwealth

Question 26

Killed/wounded in the Easter Rising

Answer 26

Overall, over 450 killed and 2,500 wounded

Question 27

Number of Irish involved in the Easter Rising

Answer 27

Involved 1600 Irish

Question 28

Actions of the rebels during the Easter Rising (3)

Answer 28

Took control of strongpoints around the city, placing their headquarters in the Dublin Post Office
Disseminated their ‘Proclamation of the Irish Republic’
Buildings were set on fire and shops looted