Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
The Easter Rising 1916
Political and Social Background
Irish War of Independence / Civil War 1919-1923
The Legacy of Violence
Division of Ireland into two states
Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
The Troubles (1960-1998)
Civil War in Northern Ireland
Paramilitary Groups
Irish Republican Army (Catholic)
Ulster Volunteer Force (Protestant)
Political violence / hunger strikes
Peace process (Good Friday Agreement 1998)
William Butler Yeats
Continuity IRA
Image from the Guardian March 2011
Donegal Pass Police Station Belfast
Non-violent protest following the killings of two soldiers and a policeman
Belfast 2009
Sides
British Army
Police (Royal Ulster Constabulary)
Government of Ireland Act 1914
Nationalists
Mainly Catholic
Goal: A united Republic of Ireland
Sinn Féin
Paramilitary groups
Irish Republican Army / Official IRA / Provisional IRA / Real IRA / Continuity IRA
Unionists
Mainly Protestant
Goal: Northern Ireland should remain a part of the UK
The Orange Order
Paramilitary groups
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
Revolutionary Voices
After the Famine
The Troubles 1966-1998
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland 6 of 9 Ulster provinces
Population: 1.8 mill
Demography (2001 Census)
Protestant background: 53,1%
Roman-Catholic: 43,8%
Ethno-Political Conflict
Nothern Irish Civil War
Late 1960's - 1998
Good Friday Agreement
3.526 people were killed during the conflict
Sporadic Violence even today
2011 Peace process seems to have taken root
Northern Ireland remains divided beneath the surface
Ireland has been governed from London since 1801
Charles Stewart Parnell, Leader of Irish Parliamentary Party 1875-1891
The Orange Order
1918: Sinn Féin win 73 of 105 Irish seats in British Parliament
1919: Declaration of Independence
1919-21 Guerilla War by Irish Republican Army
1922: Truce/establishment of Irish Free State.
six northern counties remain part of UK
1922-1923: Irish Civil War conflict between supporters of the Anglo-Irish Treaty that makes Ireland a part of British Empire and republicans who consider the treaty a betrayal of the Irish Republic proclaimed in the Easter Rising.
The Civil war is won by Free State Supporters but leaves country embittered and divided.
Republic of Ireland established 1937
Michael Collins founder of the IRA
Unionist Protestant Fraternity
Name Commemorates William of Orange
King William III
Defeat of Nationalist Army at the Battle of the Boyne 1690
Sectarianist / Supremacist
Yearly Marches on July 12th
"I can't believe the news today"
(U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday)
Patrick Pearse
Between 1969 and 2001, 3,526 people were killed as a result of the Troubles
Approximately 60% of the dead were killed by republicans, 30% by loyalists and 10% by British security forces.
Teacher and Poet
President of the Provisional
Irish Government
Co-founder of Irish Volunteers
Read the Irish Declaration of Independence
outside General Post Office, Dublin
April 24 1916
Executed 1916
James Conolly
Signing the Declaration
Leader of the Irish Socialist Party
Marxist thinker
Irish Republican Brotherhood
Founder of Irish Citizen Army
Executed 1916
Patrick Pearse
James Connolly
Thomas J Clarke
Thomas MacDonagh
Joseph Plunkett
Sean Mac Diarmada
Eamonn Ceannt
From Famine to Independence
Key Figures
Ireland 1845-1922
John MacBride
Countess Markiewicz
Not member of the Irish Volunteers
Found himself in the middle of the Rebellion and appointed second-in-command at Jacob's Factory
Famously included by Yeats in "Easter 1916"
Executed 1916
Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist. In December 1918, she was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and along with the other Sinn Féin members formed the first Dáil Éireann.
Mentioned by Yeats in "Easter, 1916"
Proclaiming the Irish Republic
Casualties and Public Opinion
IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and, supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on her own strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.
Thomas MacDonagh
64 Rebels Killed, 120 Wounded
British Army and Police 132 Killed, 397 Wounded
Civilians 300 Killed, 2,000 Wounded
Initially the rebellion met resistance by the public
Atrocities comitted by British against civilians during
and after the rebellion changed public opinion
Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the Easter Rising
Mentioned by Yeats in "Easter, 1916"
Executed 1916
William Butler Yeats
1865-1939
Irish poet and playwright
Prolific 2oth century writer
Nobel Prize in Literature
Irish Republican
Ambiguous relationship with Easter Rising
"A terrible beauty is born"
Easter, 1916 dates and events
Easter 1916
Insurrection 24 april - 30 april 1916
Hope for German Support for Rebellion
German ship "Aud" carrying a supply of weapons intercepted by Royal Navy
The Rebellion initially catches British Troops off guard
Rebels fail to secure key locations
16.000 British Troops force the republicans to surrender
90 leaders are imprisoned and 15 executed by firing squad at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin