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Rising, War and Independence (?) Birth of the Irish Republic
Grand Old Dame Britania
Rising, War and Independence (?) Birth of the Irish Republic
Belfast - Harland and Wolff
Conditions of the poor
Tenement Housing
Slum
Labor 1908 Irish Transport and General Workers Union founded by James LArkin 1911 Irish Women Workers’ Union 1912 Irish Labour Party
James Larkin 1907 National Union of Dock Labourers Sent to Dublin Often too extreme for workers as well as employers.
1913 Strike and riots William Murphy demands pledge of loyalty August 26 Tram Workers walk August 29 Mass meeting prohibited August 30, 31 Meetings and riots
1913 Lockout 2 September. The Dublin Coal Merchants’ Association lock out union members 2/12 Farmers in Co. Dublin gave notice to labourers who belong to the union; Dublin Carriers’ Association fires workers who refuse to handle ‘tainted’ goods 2/22 Timber Merchants’ employees join the boycott 2/27 Food aid from England
Food for the strikers
Arrest of Larkin
Home Rule III
Home Rule III
Home Rule III Passed for third time Asquith supports separate amending bill giving choice to Ulster
Home Rule –Curragh Mutiny General Officer Commanding Ireland—Lieut. Gen. Sir Arthur Paget; Brig. Gen Gough at Curragh Task – Move into Ulster to secure army depots in Ireland from threats by Unionists Paget issues offer to let officers resign, rather than enforce the Home Rule Act 1914 in Ulster.  Curragh: 70 British Army Officers: 57 accept
Arming Ulster volunteers (~100,000)  May 1914 Larne:  25,000 rifles and 3,000,000 rounds of ammunition from Germany Irish Volunteers (~180,000) July 1914, Howth:  900 Mauser 11 mm calibre single shot rifles (1871 vintage) and 29,000 rounds of its black powder ammunition
Ulster Volunteers
1914 Defence of the Realm Act Broad powers Prohibit Kite flying Lighting bonfires Buying binoculars Feeding bread to wild animals Watered down drinks at pubs with short hours
Recruiting - Ireland ~ 55% Catholic;  ~ 45% Protestant
Irish in the British Army  206,000 total from Ireland 58,000 already enlisted in the British Regular Army or Navy  130,000 men new volunteers 24,000 from the Redmondite National Volunteers. 26,000 from the Ulster Volunteers. 80,000 no paramilitary background
Recruitment rate 1914 44,000  1915 45,000  Pope denounces war; Gallipoli 1916 19,000  Easter Rising and reprisal 1917 14,000  1918 11,000 - 15,655,
Easter Rising
Combatants Irish Volunteer Force ~ 1500 Irish Citizens Army ~250
Commanders Pearse – Supreme Commander James Connolly- Commandant General of the Dublin District
Commanders -GPO Joseph Plunkett Michael Collins
Commanders South Dublin Union   EamonCeannt Boland’s Mill Eamonn de Valera
Commanders Four Courts Edward Daly Jacob’s Biscuit Thomas MacDonagh
Commanders St, Stephen’s Michael Malin Countess Markievicz
Lissadell
Countess as Artist Painted in prison Eva in a blue dress,
Easter Monday Fortify positions Attack on Dublin Castle fails Looting
Putting down the rising Tuesday - British reinforcements Wednesday – Use of artillery Bombardment continues even after GPO is abandoned Saturday – Nurse Elizabeth O Farrell mediates surrender of Pearse
Casualties of Easter Rising  1916 Killed  142 British soldiers and police  64 rebels  254 civilians  Wounded 2,000 people
Sheehy-Skeffington
After the Rising - GPO
GPO
Sackville St.
Thomas O'Shaughnessy, St. Patrick’s, Chicago
Thomas O'Shaughnessy, St. Patrick’s, Chicago
Arrests - Executions 3500 arrests 1841 interned in Frongoch 97 condemned 16 executed
Guantanamo of Wales – Frongoch Prison
‘The real Ireland, as opposed to the false doctrines of the Sinn Féin rebels: Captain William Redmond, Mr. John Redmond’s soldier brother, leading Irish troops’. Captain Redmond was killed at the front in 1917
Thomas Ashe (1885-1917) Teacher and founder of pipe band Leader of Easter rising in N. Dublin Imprisoned and then released in 1917 Rearrested for sedition Hunger strike, demanding prisoner of war status Dies while being force fed
Sinn Féin 1906 Founded by Arthur Griffith Radicalized after Easter Rising Released prisoners They do not want to fight England by arms, but ‘to ignore her, boycott her, and quietly assume the administration of Irish affairs. Jawaharlal Nehru, 1907
1918 Election Sinn Fein 73 (46.9%) 46 w. arrest records Irish Unionist 22 (25.3%) I.P.P. 6 (21.7%) Other 4
Ulster Donegal Derry Antrim Tyrone Down Fermanagh Armagh Monaghan Cavan
Sinn Féin – 1918 manifesto Reaffirming  the inalienable right of the Irish Nation to sovereign independence, reaffirming the determination of the Irish people to achieve it, and guaranteeing within the independent Nation equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens.
Sinn Féin – 1918 manifesto Withdraw Irish MPs from the British Parliament Use all means to contest military subjection Establish an Irish constituent assembly Appeal to the Versailles peace conference for “establishment of Ireland as an Independent Nation”
First Dail Members released from prison
Resistance
1919-20 De Valera Mission to the US Attends Republican National Convention Fails to get recognition for Ireland Raises ~ $6,000,000 High administrative expenses – Waldorf Bonds for Irish Press Group (de Valera family company)
Assassinations By 1921 400 Royal Irish Constabulary 160 soldiers
Black and Tans
Black and Tans Sacking of villages Break-ins Humiliation Auxiliaries of RIC
Treaty July 21, 1921 Truce Separate 6 counties Dominion status

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8. S War, Rising, War, Independence

  • 1. Rising, War and Independence (?) Birth of the Irish Republic
  • 2. Grand Old Dame Britania
  • 3. Rising, War and Independence (?) Birth of the Irish Republic
  • 4. Belfast - Harland and Wolff
  • 8. Labor 1908 Irish Transport and General Workers Union founded by James LArkin 1911 Irish Women Workers’ Union 1912 Irish Labour Party
  • 9. James Larkin 1907 National Union of Dock Labourers Sent to Dublin Often too extreme for workers as well as employers.
  • 10. 1913 Strike and riots William Murphy demands pledge of loyalty August 26 Tram Workers walk August 29 Mass meeting prohibited August 30, 31 Meetings and riots
  • 11. 1913 Lockout 2 September. The Dublin Coal Merchants’ Association lock out union members 2/12 Farmers in Co. Dublin gave notice to labourers who belong to the union; Dublin Carriers’ Association fires workers who refuse to handle ‘tainted’ goods 2/22 Timber Merchants’ employees join the boycott 2/27 Food aid from England
  • 12. Food for the strikers
  • 16. Home Rule III Passed for third time Asquith supports separate amending bill giving choice to Ulster
  • 17. Home Rule –Curragh Mutiny General Officer Commanding Ireland—Lieut. Gen. Sir Arthur Paget; Brig. Gen Gough at Curragh Task – Move into Ulster to secure army depots in Ireland from threats by Unionists Paget issues offer to let officers resign, rather than enforce the Home Rule Act 1914 in Ulster. Curragh: 70 British Army Officers: 57 accept
  • 18. Arming Ulster volunteers (~100,000) May 1914 Larne:  25,000 rifles and 3,000,000 rounds of ammunition from Germany Irish Volunteers (~180,000) July 1914, Howth:  900 Mauser 11 mm calibre single shot rifles (1871 vintage) and 29,000 rounds of its black powder ammunition
  • 20. 1914 Defence of the Realm Act Broad powers Prohibit Kite flying Lighting bonfires Buying binoculars Feeding bread to wild animals Watered down drinks at pubs with short hours
  • 21. Recruiting - Ireland ~ 55% Catholic; ~ 45% Protestant
  • 22. Irish in the British Army 206,000 total from Ireland 58,000 already enlisted in the British Regular Army or Navy 130,000 men new volunteers 24,000 from the Redmondite National Volunteers. 26,000 from the Ulster Volunteers. 80,000 no paramilitary background
  • 23. Recruitment rate 1914 44,000 1915 45,000 Pope denounces war; Gallipoli 1916 19,000 Easter Rising and reprisal 1917 14,000 1918 11,000 - 15,655,
  • 25.
  • 26.
  • 27. Combatants Irish Volunteer Force ~ 1500 Irish Citizens Army ~250
  • 28. Commanders Pearse – Supreme Commander James Connolly- Commandant General of the Dublin District
  • 29. Commanders -GPO Joseph Plunkett Michael Collins
  • 30. Commanders South Dublin Union EamonCeannt Boland’s Mill Eamonn de Valera
  • 31. Commanders Four Courts Edward Daly Jacob’s Biscuit Thomas MacDonagh
  • 32. Commanders St, Stephen’s Michael Malin Countess Markievicz
  • 34. Countess as Artist Painted in prison Eva in a blue dress,
  • 35. Easter Monday Fortify positions Attack on Dublin Castle fails Looting
  • 36. Putting down the rising Tuesday - British reinforcements Wednesday – Use of artillery Bombardment continues even after GPO is abandoned Saturday – Nurse Elizabeth O Farrell mediates surrender of Pearse
  • 37. Casualties of Easter Rising 1916 Killed 142 British soldiers and police 64 rebels 254 civilians Wounded 2,000 people
  • 40. GPO
  • 42. Thomas O'Shaughnessy, St. Patrick’s, Chicago
  • 43. Thomas O'Shaughnessy, St. Patrick’s, Chicago
  • 44. Arrests - Executions 3500 arrests 1841 interned in Frongoch 97 condemned 16 executed
  • 45. Guantanamo of Wales – Frongoch Prison
  • 46. ‘The real Ireland, as opposed to the false doctrines of the Sinn Féin rebels: Captain William Redmond, Mr. John Redmond’s soldier brother, leading Irish troops’. Captain Redmond was killed at the front in 1917
  • 47.
  • 48. Thomas Ashe (1885-1917) Teacher and founder of pipe band Leader of Easter rising in N. Dublin Imprisoned and then released in 1917 Rearrested for sedition Hunger strike, demanding prisoner of war status Dies while being force fed
  • 49. Sinn Féin 1906 Founded by Arthur Griffith Radicalized after Easter Rising Released prisoners They do not want to fight England by arms, but ‘to ignore her, boycott her, and quietly assume the administration of Irish affairs. Jawaharlal Nehru, 1907
  • 50. 1918 Election Sinn Fein 73 (46.9%) 46 w. arrest records Irish Unionist 22 (25.3%) I.P.P. 6 (21.7%) Other 4
  • 51. Ulster Donegal Derry Antrim Tyrone Down Fermanagh Armagh Monaghan Cavan
  • 52. Sinn Féin – 1918 manifesto Reaffirming the inalienable right of the Irish Nation to sovereign independence, reaffirming the determination of the Irish people to achieve it, and guaranteeing within the independent Nation equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens.
  • 53. Sinn Féin – 1918 manifesto Withdraw Irish MPs from the British Parliament Use all means to contest military subjection Establish an Irish constituent assembly Appeal to the Versailles peace conference for “establishment of Ireland as an Independent Nation”
  • 54. First Dail Members released from prison
  • 56. 1919-20 De Valera Mission to the US Attends Republican National Convention Fails to get recognition for Ireland Raises ~ $6,000,000 High administrative expenses – Waldorf Bonds for Irish Press Group (de Valera family company)
  • 57. Assassinations By 1921 400 Royal Irish Constabulary 160 soldiers
  • 59. Black and Tans Sacking of villages Break-ins Humiliation Auxiliaries of RIC
  • 60. Treaty July 21, 1921 Truce Separate 6 counties Dominion status