Set 30 Oct 03

Background

• 1850-1909: Parnell, Gladstone and the battle for Home Rule (BBC News: History of Ireland)
• Background on the 1916 Easter Uprising (Information about Ireland)
• The Irish Volunteers founded
• The IRB -- The Planning of the Rising (from RSF)

Easter Rising

• 1916 Easter Rebellion (from Irish Northern Aid)
• The 1913 Dublin Lockout
• The Irish Citizen Army: Labour Clenches Its Fist
• The 1916 rising?
• Captain Jack White
• 1916: The Rising
• Fighting Women (A memoir by Countess de Markievicz)
• The Women of Easter Week: Cumann Na mBan in Stephen's Green and the College of Surgeons
• Easter Rising - 1916 (brief history; includes bios)
• 1910-16: The 'winning' of Home Rule to the Easter Rebellion
• Documents relating to Thomas MacDonagh
• The Only Hope of Ireland by US anarchist Alexander Berkman written in May 1916 about the Easter rising and Irish American reaction to it)
• James Connolly
  • Connolly's writings from the James Connolly Society
  • Connolly Collected Works
  • Connolly Ain't Nothing but a Train Station in Dublin: The Expropriation of James Connolly's Revolutionary Legacy by Irish Republicanism by Jacqueline Dana
  • Connolly and the 1916 Easter Uprising by Ted Grant, 1966
• Patrick Pearse
  • Padraic Pearse Essays and Lectures
  • Patrick Pearse's Eulogy at O'Donovan Rossa's Funeral, August 1915
  • Pearse, Patrick [Padraig MacPiarais] (1879-1916) by John L. Murphy
  • Patrick Pearse Bio (from AOH)

Making of a Republic

• 1921 The Partition of Ireland (from Irish Northern Aid)
• The Irish Declaration of Independence (21st January 1919, First Dail Eireann)
• Big Jim Larkin 1876-1947 (from Irish Trade Union Trust)
• Jim Larkin bio by Gerard Cunningham
• 1919 The Republic Founded on a Democratic Basis (analysis)
• The Anglo-Irish Treaty: Seed of 'The Troubles'
• Republican Women of Kilmainham Gaol (gone, looking for another url)
• "Towards Partition" by Colm Fox (from CAIN)
• 1923-38: The fixing of the Irish border
• 1921-22: The Irish Free State and civil war
• 1917-20: The road to partition
• Padraic Fleming, an early protester against criminal status by Martin Ferris
• A proud history gives confidence of victory (Sinn Féin, 1956)
• Sinn Féin election manifesto Westminster elections (Sinn Féin, 1955)
• Michael Collins
  • Michael Collins' Web Page by Suzanne Barrett
  • Biography of Michael Collins (from the London Times) (gone, looking for article)
  • The film 'Michael Collins' (includes photos and bio)
  • The Path to Freedom by Michael Collins
• Maud Gonne: Yeats' Cathleen NÌ Houlihan, Ireland's Joan of Arc
• The Broy Harriers (from AP/RN) (gone, looking of new site)
• The Boundary Commission (from AP/RN) (gone, looking of new site)
• Dail's first day - 80 years on by Michael O'Toole (from Irish News) (gone, looking of new site)
• Land Annuities (from AP/RN) (gone, looking of new site)
• Peadar O'Donnell (from AP/RN) (gone, looking of new site)
• The Royal Irish Constabulary(from AP/RN) (gone, looking of new site)
• Kilmainham Jail (scroll down) (from AP/RN) (gone, looking of new site)
• The Four Courts attack (from AP/RN) (gone, looking of new site)
• Strangeways Prison Escape (1919) (from AP/RN) (gone, looking of new site)
• Twentieth-Century Witness: Ireland's Fissures, and My Family's autobiographical essay by Conor Cruise O'Brien
• The Roots of My Preoccupations 2nd autobiographical essay by Conor Cruise O'Brien
• Transient Nationalism: Evolved Patriotism in the Republic of Ireland essay by Brian Gill (includes analysis of 1956 Border Campaign)
• Neo-Colonial Ireland (Creation of Irish State)(from RSF)
• The Irish Tragedy: Scotland's Disgrace by John MacLean (1920)

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