Irish Republican Brotherhood

known as the ancient Irish warriors. Fenians wanted to achieve Irish Independence from England by force. This movement was also known as the Fenian Brotherhood, Fenian Society, Irish Republican Brotherhood, and Irish American Brotherhood. The Fenians also had a very strong military force located in Ireland. The reason for a strong army in the society was to gain independence from England. This movement was led by James Stephens from 1825 to 1901. He founded the party, the Irish People, in Dublin 1863

which meant that the Irish Parliament would be restored for most issues, but the British government would still cover many important areas (Conflict 3). The term Government Association started to be used very frequently; Isaac Butt was the gentleman who founded this association. In 1873 this became known as the Home Rule League and in 1874 a general election was held where fifty home rulers were elected to the Home Rule party also known as the Irish Parliamentary Party (Irish 29). Butts ' goal was

would feel, that he has, in a sense, been ‘written out of history’. O’Rahilly was a man who believed that the Irish people could not achieve independence of the British without confrontation in an armed struggle. It was for this reason that he joined played a large part in the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913. Interestingly, O’Rahilly refused to join the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) on the grounds that he could not join a secret society. He was a man of very strong principles, and felt

prevalent in Parliamentary discourse and over the course of these year, three different bills were proposed. However, in 1912, the third Home Rule bill was passed in Westminster, only to be suspended upon British entrance into the First World War. Irish members of Parliament that had been pushing for Home Rule for many years finally saw their plans come to fruition, only to be stalled by the outbreak of the Great War. This war was costly, and required significant support from the United Kingdom and

Cusack, Maurice Davin and John Wyse- Power, amongst others met at Hayes Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary. At that short meeting the Gaelic Athletic Association for the Preservation and Cultivation was founded. From the following year the Irish Republican Brotherhood began to take a strong interest in the Association and attempted to take over the Association in its early years, an attempt that had it succeeded may well have destroyed and ended the Association at that time. From then the GAA became

The Easter Rising is commonly regarded as one of Ireland’s most patriotic moments, similar to the United State’s Revolutionary War. This rebellion was the result of decades of nationalism and a group of independence seeking Irishmen seeing an opportunity with England being tied up in the First World War. They were not going to let this chance pass, and they orchestrated a very secretive plan with many different moving parts, relying almost entirely upon receiving weapons from Germany and catching

Causes of the Easter Uprising In the mid 1800s the course of Irish history was changed forever. The Irish were devastated by The Great Potato Famine of the mid to late 1800s. Population declined from over eight million people in 1840 to under 4.5 million in 1900 due to death and immigration (O’Rourke 2). The poorer Irish people, unlike many British citizens, relied almost entirely on agriculture. The Irish immigration not only affected Ireland and Britain, but its affects were felt over much of

 Background to Landed Estates [online] Ask about Ireland. Available at: URL http://askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/history-heritage/big-houses-of-ireland/welcome-to-the-cork-archi/background-to-landed-esta/ [20/10/2017].  Moffatt, Lewis, b. (1886). The Irish land question: scheme for a peasant propriety in Ireland . Edition. (E-book) Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, page 3. Available at: https://archive.org/details/cihm_11156 URL [Accessed

the United Irishmen Rising in 1798 . During the time of the Great Famine from 1845 to 1847 the majority of the Irish population lost faith in the British government because they did not listen or take their grievances seriously . The Irish immediately became second class citizens to the British . Germany during World War One thought that England would be too occupied with the Irish to enter into WW1 . An immediate cause of the war was the threat of the Northern Ireland’s to oppose domestic self-government

through before he would emerge as a central figure in the uprising of Irish independence for the