The 1913 Lockout, 1916 Rising, the Treaty of 1921 and the Causes of the Civil War, 1922

The Easter Uprising of 1916 was an event that happened at the tail end of a long list of events that would forever change Ireland. The Uprising or Rising, as some call it, took place mostly in Dublin but was felt throughout Ireland. The point was to gain independence from Great Britain who had ruled Ireland for the past couple hundred years. At the turn of the 19th century England believed that Ireland had too much independence and made the Act of Union. “The result was the Act of Union of 1801: the Irish parliament voted itself out of existence and England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales were formally politically unified for the first time” (Hegarty 2). Around the time of the First World War, Ireland began

During the years of 1861 to 1865, The United States experienced one of its troubled moments in History. The nation was suffering from cilvil disorder, moral values, political struggles amongst a dividing nation. The “slave” states ( The South ) created the Confederation States of America, thus separating from the Northern States. Both sides were growing in opposites directions, economically and different social views. Of the industrialization and the evolving workforce, slavery and its cruel practices were the biggest concern of both parties.

For the first half of the 19th Century the, still relatively young, United States began to face many conflicts regarding civil rights as well as continuous opposing views between the North and South. One of the more prevalent issues at the time, even though both Democrat and Whig parties attempted to avoid talking about it, was regarding the institution of slavery and whether or not it was “right”. Another issue that arose was whether or not the country would go to war with Mexico after Democrat, and current president at the time, James K. Polk went to Congress with a declaration of war with the claim that on American soil, Mexico had caused the shedding of American blood. Furthermore, the war against Mexico would eventually ignite the debate of slavery even more and unfortunately lead to the events of the Civil War.

However, The British government itself was going through a hard time in trying to keep the people of England healthy. It wasn’t until 1916 when a call for reform was widely spread and would create the Irish Republican Army (IRA) that would begin to fight the British army in order to gain independence. The IRA use guerrilla warfare by organizing small attacks that would be widely spread out. Although, the British would see these attacks as terrorist attacks which continued for five years. With no end in sight the British offered on December 6, 1921 the Anglo-Irish treaty which would divide Ireland into two.

Beyond that, the goal of the Irish Volunteers was to “Secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to the whole people of Ireland.” In fact, this goal was similar, if not the same, only worded differently to the Irish Republican Army. Beyond that, they were also established to enforce the imminent Home Rule Devolution. Act. Now, these Volunteers were formed in response to the formation of the Ulster Volunteer in 1913. The Ulster Volunteers were founded by Protestant Unionists in the north. Indeed, their goal was to stop the enactment of the Home Rule Devolution. Act. Incidentally, the Ulster Volunteers were mainly against the Irish Volunteers because they consisted of Catholics that wanted to be independent from British rule. Meanwhile, the Ulster Volunteers wanted to stay under British rule (Irish Volunteers).

Conscription was imposed, as a result of the Military Service Act March 1916. This meant all males aged between 18 and 41 were enlisted, to support the national war effort. The act did however exempt the medically unfit and teachers from participating in the war. Therefore it was effective to some extent, as it allowed for extensive operations and excluded married men. It is thought that 1.1 million men enlisted however despite this; in April 1916 a mass demonstration was held in Trafalgar Square. This put pressure on the Liberal Party as many inexperienced men were in the heart of battle.

Irish nationalists then fought in Easter Rising between the British for the end of British rule in Ireland in 1916. The war lasted 6 days and the British were victorious. Michael Collin’s arose after the war and felt Ireland could do better. Michael Collins was called to leadership in his life.

the southern and northeastern of the United States were at war and it was named the

Read from the steps of the General Post Office, the Easter Proclamation declared “the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State” . Almost comically, no one hearing the proclamation seemed to care and when the British military arrived many Dubliners cheered . The Easter Rising was led mainly by The Irish Volunteers, which would later become the IRA during the Irish War of independence. An interesting aspect of the Easter Rising set for the later wars was how it foreshadowed the indifference many Irishmen felt towards the IRA during the later wars, as many seemed to be perfectly content under British rule. Additionally, the war strategy employed by the Volunteers was that of attempting to force a decisive encounter against the British and sought to get help from foreign countries sympathetic to their cause or countries that hated the British. During the Easter Rising the British deployed troops to simply quell the uprising, which they did with ease. Within 5 days, the Easter Rising ended and Ireland would be quiet for another three

There is a meaning that is withheld in what we see everyday, whether it be in a painting, writing, or in a photo, we all have certain perspectives on different subjects and that’s one of the things that brings a divergence in the path of thoughts. All of three mentioned above are a way that our history as a nation can be preserved, unless of course there’s a fire and everything goes up in flames within seconds and just like that, everything is gone, and this is why copies are important everyone. Oh, what’s that? The south and north are so angry with each other that they’re actually throwing punches instead of throwing words at each other. Wait, did you mean books? Nope, letters to show how much they disagree with one another’s ideas,

The campaign had ultimately led to the creation of the Act of Ireland of 1920. This created a twenty-six county Irish Free State and six counties in Northern Ireland (Filardo-Llamas, 2013; White, 1989). This act also allowed Northern Ireland to choose whether or not to stay with Britain or become part of the Free State. Northern Ireland ultimately decided to stay with the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland created its own parliament in Stormont in Belfast (Bosi, 2012; Filardo-Llamas, 2013). The Free State was mostly inhabited by Catholics while Northern Ireland was populated mostly by Protestants (White, 1989). But the road to have a Free State did come at a price. Over 7,500 people lost their lives or were wounded between 1917 and 1923. Many lost their homes, family and friends (Hart,

For hundreds of years, since approximately AD1171, when King Henry III invaded Ireland, England had had control of Ireland. Nevertheless, Ireland became a separate nation in 1949, after many years of struggling to be independent of Great Britain. The English, predominantly Protestant, had treated the mostly Catholic Irish badly, while the Catholics had started uprisings against British rule. One of these was the Easter Uprising of 1916; the cruel reaction of the British Army to this revolt gained support for the militarist movement, which had not been seen before as the solution to the problem of English rule in

More than 220 women took part directly in the rebellion through the formation or leading committees such as Cumann na mBan. This organization involvement in providing the arms and staging attacks necessary for Irish independence and equality for the country.

Civil War is defined as a war between citizens of the same country. Why would America have this fight? The Northern states of America decided that they would no longer tolerate the Southern states treating African Americans as slaves because of the color of their skin. When disputes were brought up over this issue between the North and South, the South was too persistent to have slaves. They worried that the North would be successful in abolishing slavery, so in result, the South went against the North. There were many elements that the Civil War was known for, some of the main ones were causes, key figures, battles, and the outcome of the war.

The GAA in Dublin had a large increase in the number of clubs affiliated to it since the 1915 convention, with seventy clubs listed at the Annual Convention of 1916 which was held on 14 January 1917. Some of the new clubs were named in memory of those killed during the 1916.1 William Nolan notes that the Volunteers from North Dublin, founded the Thomas Weafer GAA Club, in memory of the Wexford-born member of the GPO Garrison, whose brother Patrick, a member of St Laurence O Tooles GAA club who had also fought in the same Garrison.2 It is also important to note that Erin's Isle GAA club in Finglas, was founded in January 1917 by a number of men involved in the Volunteers with direct links to those who fought in the Easter