Understand the Irish reaction to Home Rule passing. Crisis over Home Rule and WW1 Date: Objective Understand the Irish reaction to Home Rule passing. See the tension rise, pause when WW1 begins and then rise again. Warm-up: Questions from last class. Question 1-5 page 129. Question 1-5 page 131.

Notes Home Rule was set to begin in 1914. There was mass protest from Unionist. The Solemn League and Covenant was a petition signed by 400, 000 people. The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF): an army of 50,000 members with 35,000 rifles gotten from Germany. They opposed Home Rule. The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC): the police who, because they were protestant, did not want to stop the UVF. (Page 133 questions 1-5)

Notes (Page 133 questions 1-5) Nationalist did not like what the Unionist were doing so, in 1913, Eoin MacNeill set up the Irish National Volunteers. He did not realise many of their members were from the IRB. There were now two armed groups in Ireland. The English Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, persuaded the Leader of the Home Rule Party, John Redmond, to talk about partition. Partition: Split Ireland into two parts. The first talks about it were interrupted by the start of World War 2 (Page 133 questions 1-5)

Notes Irishmen in WW1 (1914-18): both Unionist and Nationalist fought in WW1. They fought for Britain to gain their favour in negotiations afterwards. 30,000 Irishmen died in WW1. Questions 1-5 page 134 Questions 1-3 page 134 Revision questions 1-3 page 35

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