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Ireland 1910-1918Act of UnionPassed in 1800, Politically tied Ireland to Britain.3/4 of Irish population did not support the UnionIreland had no Parliament of its own, Ruled by parliament inWestminister, we were allowed 105 seats in parliament.The British parliament consisted of the House of Commons(electedindividuals) and the House of Lords(non-elected individuals, britishnobility)The Nationalists VS The UnionistsNationalist- A person against the UnionUnionist-A person who supported the Union.PartiesHome Rule PartySinn FeinLabourIrish RepublicanBrotherhood(IRB)Wanted its own Parliament for Ireland to deal with Irish affairswhile UK deals with more important events such as the irisharmy.Ireland will still be under power of the king.ArthurGriffith1905Wanted Own irish parliament but wanted king of Englandto still be king of Ireland.Griffith wanted Ireland to developtheir own industries and prosperity.Wanted total independence from England, BelievedIreland should be a republic.This organisation was a secretone, They believed their goal could only be achievedthrough rebellion.Reasons as to why N and Uwere against/for the UnionPoverty:During the union only Ulster blossomed withmuch wealth and jobs, whereas the Irish were barleygetting by on the scraps.Religion:As Britain at the time was protestant andIreland was Catholic this caused a problem as Theprotestants(unionist) did not want home rule asif Ireland were to get their own parilment ,it wouldmostly contain catholics leaving proestants out invotes whereas the same for the opposite side ifBritain were to take over fully catholics would haveno say in how their country was run.(Home Rule isRome Rule)Culture:The Irish culturewas nothing like theEnglish culture, we evenhad a completely differentlanguage, many people feltthat if Ireland were to joinEngland we would begiving up our culture andirish heritage.The GAA(The Gaelic Athletic Association)Set up by Douglas Hydein hopes to renew Irishculture through sportssuch as GaelicFootball.Also in hopes ofuniting all opinionsthrough sport.(1884)The First Gaelic League in 1884 was set up to renewthe irish language also to teach Ceilis and irishmusic.They also started printing newspapers in irishin a desperate attempt to get back their belovedlanguage. Eventually the GAA was taken over by theIRB, Hyde retired in distgust as his original idea of aunited Ireland had been taken away.The Lockout/Labour MovementDurning the 1913s Irish workers were treated badly and worked in terrible conditions on little pay.Manypeople beleved that workers should have rights; these people were referred to as Socialists.Amoung themwere two men James connoly and Jim Larkin.In 1908 Jim Larkin tried to set up a trade union called the IrishTransport and Genral Workers' union (ITGWU),Afraid of this union all work places locked workers out of workuntil they agreed not to join the union.Many people refused this offer and started striking outside theirworkplaces, unfortuantley the police were on side with the powerful bosses and beat up any person whorefused the offer,in order to protect the irish people the ICA (Irish Citizen Army) was set up.This armyprotected the people from the police brutality.Eventually after 5 months of the lockout workers were forcedto go back to work as their jobs were the only way they feed their families, when the workers returned theyreturned to even worse conditions.Home Rule CrisisAfter the genral election in 1910 the Libral Party tried topass a higher tax on the rch which got veto and lost thelibral party votes, in order to beat the opposing team sothey contacted John Redmond the head of the HomeRule Party and struck a deal with them if they give theLibral Party their votes in return they must pass thehome rule bill.When the liberal party did win they kepttheir word and made a law so the house of lords couldonly Veto a bill twice and on the third time the bill isautomatically passed.Evntaully the bill got acceptedin1912 and the house of lords could only delay the billby two years.As you can imagine the Nationalists weredelighted while the Unionists were horrified.Unionist reaction:After finding out the home rule bill was to be passedCarson and Craig set up the Ulster Voulenteer Force( UVF) to preventhome rule being opposed on them.They state they will not stop at any costuntil they do not face home rule.They also signed the Soleum league andcovannant.Edward Carson, James CraigNationalists Reaction:In reaction to the unionists the nationilists felt that if the UVF caused to much trouble the billwould be canncllled so in response Eoin Mac Neill set up the Irish Voulenteers to protect the home rule bill.While thiswas happening the IRB secretly set up inside the IV slowly converting the men to a full republic.Threat of Civil War:As there were now two separatearmies ready to fight for their belief there was athreat of civil war,quite quickly Asquith the leaderof the liberal party convinced Redmond and Carsonto talk and discuss ther beliefs amound eachotherand reach an agreement.Eventually an agreementwas reached that a Partition was to be put in placeto separate the unionists from thenationalists.Carson wanted ulster while Redmondagreed where his majority stood.Unfortuanatley World War One broke out before Home rule wassupposed to come out.Due to WW1 Home rule was postponed tillthe end of the war.Both groups encouraged their volounteers tojoin.The 1916RisingPreparrationsTheRisingWhy it failedRepercussion of the risingThe 1916 rising was due to happen on Easter day 1916, the IRB needed more men forthis rising to be sucsessful so they created a fake letter to the IV saying that anyoneinvolved was to be arrested, this caused Eoin Mac Neill unaware the letter was forged tojoin forces with the IRB and plan the easter rising.Just when everything was plannedEoin Mac Neill discovered that the guns and arsenal that was supposed to be deliveredgot captured off the coast of howth by a British Army Ship.Mac Neill also discovered theletter was forged and called off the rising in the Sunday paper.The IRB were still intenton going on with the rising as they planned to use Blood Sacrifice to change thepeoples minds.There were too little men and the English had greatlyoutnumbered them.Also they did not think throughtheir stratigy as they were trapped inside buildingsunable to get out.All the main leaders of the rising were caught and exacuted, one of themen were already badly injured and was bound to die within numbereddays but the British strapped him to a chair and shot him,The publicstarted changing their opinions as they felt the executions were toharsh.The British started realizing this and stopped the executions butit was too late.The damage had been done and now Ireland wanted to befree.The Rising Itself took place on Easter Sunday 1916 at 12:00.The IRB were in short numbers and planned to take over thekey buildings in Dublin.The GPO was the headquarters for the rising.It contained Parick Pearse the Main leader of the IRB,The college of Surgeons which contained James Connelly, They also tried to take over Dublin castle the british headquartersin Dublin but failed due to lack of men.The rising lasted for 6 days it started on Sunday and by Tuesday the English hadbrought in 2000 more soilders.Eventually after a lot of bloodshed and crossfire Parick Pearse surrendered causeing all hisfollowers to surrender such as his right hand man or should I say women who when surrendered kissed her gun andhanded it over to the general.Double click this nodeto edit the textClick and drag this buttonto create a new node