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Live TV. This Day In History. The rest of Ireland remained Catholic and generally opposed to British rule. There were many bloody wars and rebellions against British rule in the s and s.
There were also smaller scale rebellions in the s, s and s. Most of these rebellions were organised and led by the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
They were usually known as Fenians, after a mythical Irish army in the past. Despite this, their rebellions all failed. The British government managed to ignore the Home Rule issue until the early s. It passed a number of measures that improved conditions for ordinary Irish farmers and helped them to buy their own farms which most of them rented. Home Rule did not become a big issue again until There was an election that year. There was just as much resistance to Home Rule this time as there had been in the s and s.
Redmond believed they were bluffing and that the British government should force them to accept Home Rule. Nationalists in Ireland then formed their own army - the National Volunteers often called Irish Volunteers.
It looked as though there would be a civil war in Ireland by , but then a bigger war came along. Both sides dropped their claims. Redmond encouraged the National Volunteers to serve in the British Army. In return he expected Home Rule when the war ended. Carson encouraged the Ulster Volunteers to serve in the British Army. In return he expected no Home Rule! Both sides fought with distinction in the war, both in the trenches of the Western Front and in the Middle East.
In , as a result of a political deal between the Irish Parliamentary party and the Liberal Party at Westminster, the British government introduced a Bill for Home Rule, or limited autonomy for Ireland within the United Kingdom as Irish nationalists had been demanding since the s. However, this was opposed by Ulster Unionists, who formed their own militia, the Ulster Volunteers to oppose Irish self-government.
Irish nationalists in response formed a rival militia, the Irish Volunteers to ensure Home Rule was passed. Tensions between the two sides were eased by the outbreak of the First World War , when both sides agreed to support the British war effort. However, in , a more radical Irish nationalist element in the Irish Volunteers, largely directed by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, unhappy with support for Britain in the war and believing that Home Rule fell too far short of Irish independence, launched an insurrection known as the Easter Rising in Dublin, proclaiming an Irish Republic.
See the Easter Rising, an overview. The rebellion was put down within a week with about deaths, but the British reaction, executing the leaders and arresting 3, nationalist activists antagonized Irish public opinion. However, British policy was inconsistent. In , in a bid to restart negotiations on Home Rule, all of the prisoners from the Easter Rising were released. Many of them joined the Sinn Fein party and led a very popular campaign against the introduction of conscription into Ireland for the Great War.
Several hundred republicans were arrested in under charges of conspiring with Germany. More were detained under legislation banning public parades. In December , Sinn Fein decisively won the Irish vote in the General Election taking 73 seats out being a majority everywhere except Ulster and declared an Irish Republic.
This is commonly presented as the opening shots of the war but there had been deaths in and only 17 more people were killed in Alongside the limited armed campaign there was significant passive resistance including hunger strikes by prisoners many of whom were released in March and a boycott by railway workers on carrying British troops. Violence intensified in early Much of the Sinn Fein political leadership had been arrested. Eamon de Valera, the President of the Republic, had gone to America to raise funds.
A series of attacks on rural police barracks ensued in early The RIC withdrew from its smaller stations into fortified barracks in towns and the abandoned posts were systematically burnt by the IRA around the country on the night of Easter Sunday By the summer of , many RIC men were resigning their commissions and in many localities the IRA were in the ascendant.
At the same time, in the summer of , Sinn Fein won local government elections across most of Ireland and took over functions of government from the state such as tax collection and law enforcement. To put down this insurgency, the British government under Lloyd George proposed autonomous governments in Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland and also deployed new corps of paramilitary police from Britain, the Black and Tans and Auxiliary Division , made up largely of war veterans from the First World War.
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