Modern World Study; Conflict In Ireland.

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Modern World Study; Conflict In Ireland

Question 1. The following events have all helped to shape the course of recent Irish history:

                The Easter Uprising, 1916

                The Development Of Troops In Northern Ireland, 1969

               “Bloody Sunday”, 30th January 1972

What impact did each event have on the history of the conflict in Ireland?

       

 Question 2. The following events have been attempts to bring peace to Ireland:

               The Power Sharing Schemes Of 1973 And 1982

               The Anglo-Irish Agreement

               The Downing Street Declaration, 1993

Question 1

The Easter Uprising

The revolutionary Nationalists in Ireland used the war as an excuse to stage an armed uprising in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916.After a week of violence these rebels eventually surrendered. These leaders became martyrs as they were executed by the British without a trial. There was a very angry reaction to the Easter Uprising by the Irish population. There was a lot of damage and disruption caused. The public opinion radically changed and they were out raged by the British response towards this rebellion. The support for Sinn Fein increased and even by 1917 Sinn Fein won the election.

From 1918 there was many long term consequences caused by the Easter Uprising. They started in 1918 when Sinn Fein took a landslide in the general election, from then onwards long term consequences of the Easter Uprising have gone all the way up to 1968. as Sinn Fein had won the election they then took matters into their own hands and decided to do what they want when they want. The Sinn Fein MPs refused to go to Westminster to set up a deal with the British MPs. Instead in the same year they set up their own police force which was legal and was also the beginning on the I.R.A.

From 1919 through to 1921, there was what you could call an uneasy peace. Well that was up until 1920 when the I.R.A began a Guerilla war against the Royal Constabulary. This war was given the name ‘The War Of Independence’. The war of independence started on 21st of January 1919 when the I.R.A killed 2 policemen I county Tipperary. The R.I.C were armed and still controlled by the British. The I.R.A staged surprise attacks on police stations and patrols, suspected police informers were shot. In the end it forced the R.I.C to send it their reinforcements. These were given the name ‘Black And Tans’ because of their makeshift uniforms. The Black and Tans were soon given the reputation of great brutality and I.R.A suspects were beaten and often killed. The Black and Tans didn’t just stop there, after an I.R.A attack they would then finish the job off by burning down the houses of local catholics.

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In 1920 there was an act set up by the British government and it was named The Government Of Ireland Act. The British governments idea was to split Ireland into 2 separate parts and let each side rule for itself.

In the Northern side of Ireland the Ulster Protestants didn’t want a separate Ireland  so they gave full support to the British. In the end the support from these Protestant wasn’t good enough and both the Protestants and the British gave into a separate Ireland. Also in that year the six most protestant counties of Ulster were given their own ...

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