? starter activity

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? starter activity
Eamon de Valera
Lloyd-George
Edward Carson
When the Anglo-Irish Treaty was eventually signed
in 1921 agreeing to the formal partition of
Ireland, what do you think the above were
thinking?
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How was Northern Ireland created?
? Aims

• To assess the impact of the Easter Rising
• To study the reasons for the Partition of Ireland
  (1921)

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? Your task

• Read the information that follows from The
  Struggle for Peace in Northern Ireland and
  answer questions 1- 5.

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Reasons for growth in support for Sinn Fein

• Execution of leaders of Easter Rising
• Proposal to introduce conscription for Irish
• Sinn Fein declared itself to be Dail Earrean
• Enjoyed support of IRA

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Resistance to the Dail

• Leader of Sinn Fein (De Valera) unpopular with
  Unionists Catholic, supporter of Gaelic League
• Worries in Westminster Ulster over hardline
  views of Sinn Fein (compared with moderate IPP)

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Tactics used by British Irish

• IRA pursued guerrilla war against RIC (Royal
  Irish Constabulary)
• New British regiment - Black Tans
• IRA organised itself into flying columns

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Increase in violence

• Black Tans homes burned, IRA prisoners
  tortured
• IRA tortured killed civilians, e.g. accountant
  Alan Bell
• In Ulster, c.500 people Catholics, Protestants
  police killed in attacks between 1920 and 1922

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Govt. of Ireland Act, 1920

• Unionists reluctant to accept partition
  (division) of Ireland
• Nationalists wanted full independence achieved
  by Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921) Partition

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? Your task
Data collection sheet

• Examine the situation in Ireland before and after
  the Easter Rising (1916). Complete the table your
  teacher gives you.

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? Plenary

• Why was the Easter Rising a turning point in
  Irish history? Introduce your answer by very
  briefly explaining the key events. Identify 3 or
  more reasons why it was a turning point and
  develop these with evidence from your research,
  newspaper and weblinks on the history website
  www.studyhistory.co.uk