Ireland - The Age of Nations

Ireland - The Age of Nations

• 1903 - Abbey Theatre founded by William Butler Yates
• Influenced by fear of Ireland becoming British
• Patrick Pearce joined the IRB
• 1912 - Home Rule put forward
• Ulster volunteer force in 1913 challenged the state
• Irish volunteers and citizen army to protect the Home Rule
• 24th and 25th April 1914 ammunition brought and distributed across Ulster by Germany
• Following July Nationalists did trhe same and were caught out
• 30,000 Irishmen died in World War 1
• Fear of conscription in Ireland from Britain
• Easter Rising in 1916
• Rebels lead by Pearce and Connolly - took over GPO
• Proclamation read outside - announcing an Irish Republic (only around 20 were there to listen)
• British outnumbered the rebels 10-1
• The Fusiliers joined the fight
• Surrendered on April 29th 
• Leaders taken to Kilmainham jail and sentenced to death
• Turned every one of them into martyrs because they died for the cause and this was a mistake made by the British
• British declared Marshall Law
• The volunteers eventually turned into the IRA (Irish Republican Army)
• 1918 General Election -…