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Searc's Web Guide to 20th Century Ireland - 1916 Easter Rising

Liberty Hall, Dublin 1916 © Searc's Web Guide

John Daly, Thomas James Clarke & Sean MacDiarmuid circa. 1916 © Searc's Web Guide

On Left Liberty Hall, Dublin 1916 and Right John Daly, Thomas James Clarke & Sean MacDiarmuid Circa. 1916 ©
Chronology
1903 Wyndham Land Purchases Act introduced.
1905 Sinn Féin founded in Dublin.
1906 Liberals win General Election with majority and fail to offer Home Rule to Irish Party.
1909 Land Purchase Act.
1910 Two General Elections in which Conservatives and Liberals almost equal with Irish Party holding balance.
1911 Parliament Act deprives House of Lords of ultimate veto.
1912 Third Home Rule Bill. Solemn League and Covenant in Ulster.
1913 January Ulster Volunteer Force founded. November Irish Citizen Army and Irish National Volunteers founded.
1914 Curragh 'mutiny'. Larne gun-running. Howth gun-running. Outbreak of First World War. September: Home Rule Act on Statue Book. Implementation of Home Rule postponed because of outbreak of World War I. IRB plans Rising.
1916 Easter Rising. The leaders are executed in May and public opinion swings towards supporting independence.
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People
Helena Maloney (1884-1967)
Charlotte Despard (1844-1939)
Thomas James Clarke (1857-1916)
Roger Casement (1864-1916) Roger Casement Diaries
William O'Brien (1852-1928)
Maud Gonne (1865-1953)
Joseph Plunkett (1887-1916)
Michael O'Hanrahan (1877-1916)
Thomas McDonagh (1878-1916)
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (1878-1916)
James Connolly (1868-1916)
Padraig Pearse (1879-1916)
Eamonn Ceannt (1881-1916)
Constance Markievicz (1868-1927)
Sean Milroy (c.1916)

Texts
Factual 1916 Essay

A Smaller Social History of Ireland By P.W. Joyce (1908)

The 1916 Proclaimation
A copy of the 1916 Proclaimation which Padraig Pearse read on the steps of the G.P.O on Easter Monday, 1916 with a midi file of the Irish National Anthem.

20th Century Irish Historical Texts
The CELT Project at UCC includes the full text of James Connolly's Labour in Irish History (1912); Michael Collins' The Path to Freedom (1922) and The Dáil Treaty Debates 1921-1922.

W.B.Yeats' poem Easter 1916

Memorabilia from The 1916 Easter Rising, its Prelude and Aftermath

YouTube Archive material of people and places in the Rising created by The O'Maolagan