1916 Easter Rebellion

Tudor Expeditions
1. British wanted to extend power
  1. Ireland mainly British protestants and Irish catholics
    1. Catholics and Protestants fought
      1. 1610 Catholic land was taken
      2. 1641 took part in great rebellion against settlers
  2. changed from Catholic to protestant
    1. England worried Ireland would be used by spanish
      1. began to send British settlements
        land their main source of power
        gave loyal protestants land
Easter rebellion 1916
1. series of events that led to partition
2. planned by a small group of men
3. a week of bloody fighting
  1. little support for the rebels
    1. seized key buildings in Dublin
      1. main leaders stationed at GPO
4. there was confusion between rebels
5. 1200 volunteers assembled in Dublin
  1. number lower than expected
    1. due mainly to confusion
  2. some not prepared to risk lives
6. Destruction of Dublin
  1. British brought in more reinforcements
    1. isolated rebels to weaken resistance
      1. gunboat sent to retake the city
7. 26th April
  1. british had control of most of the city
    1. shelling of rebellions
      1. James Connolly badly wounded
8. 28 April
  1. Pearse issued unconditional surrender
  2. the british arrested and killed men involved
    1. public opinion changed
England and Ireland united under Act of Union 1800
1. english abolished Irish parliament
2. Grew for demands of Catholics freedom
  1. 1840 Ireland confronted with potato famine
    1. British would not help
      1. famine, millions died (1845-51
        caused mass migration - Aussie, America
        1858 Irish Republican Brotherhood
        fuelled by anger
        Revolutionary organisation
Causes of the Easter Rebellion
1. British occupation of Ireland
  1. taking over the Irish parliament
    1. treating the Catholics badly
2. Aims
  1. to make Ireland a republic
    1. to make a statement to the British
Consequences
1. rebels defeated
  1. British cracked down on the Sinn Feiners
  2. 3430 men, 79 women
    1. 90 sentenced to death
2. Executed Irish rebels
  1. changed views of the public
  2. became martas
    1. 15 were executed
3. independence became to burning issue
  1. 1917 Sinn Fein won every seat in 5 Irish election
    1. IRA- formed and continued to fight British
      1. Irish partitioned
        South became the Irish Republic
        civil war 1922- 1923
        Dublin

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