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Timeline Ireland 1912-1923

1912 Ulster Covenant (Sept 237, 368 signatories (Sept. 1912) 1912)

234, 046 signatories. Women’s Declaration

1913 Ulster Volunteer Force Up to 250, 000 men in Volunteers armies. (Jan. 1913) and Irish

Volunteers (Nov. 1913)

Signed by 6 male Unionist leaders (Sept Ulster Provisional 1913) Government Proclamation

Dublin Lock-Out Involved approximately 20, 000 workers (26 August 1913 – 18 ).

1914 Cumann na mBan Approx membership 11-12,000

UVF Gun Running 24, 000 rifles, 5, 000, 000 rounds of ammunition, 6 Maxim machine guns

().

Irish Volunteers Gun 900 rifles and 29, 000 rounds of Running ammunition ().

Beginning of WW1 Declared on 3rd after the

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shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand a month earlier in Sarajevo.

1916 Easter Rising Began Easter Monday 24th and ended Saturday 29th April. About 440

killed (insurgents, , civilians)

Easter Proclamation Signed by 7 Irish Republican Brotherhood leaders.

Execution of 16 Rising 3rd to 12th Leaders

1st July – 36th Ulster Division – 2, 069 Battle of the Somme killed, 5, 000 casualties.

2nd and 9th September – 16th Irish Division – 1, 167 killed, 4, 314 casualties at Guillemont and Ginchy.

1918 End of WW1 11th – Transformation of political world order.

General election – 73 seats out of 105 Sinn Féin Electoral Landslide (Dec 1918).

21st January – Not recognised by British

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1919 First Dáil Éireann Government.

21st January – 2 RIC officers killed in Tipperary (Jan 1919 to July 1921, about Beginning of War of 1400 killed on all sides and including Independence civilians).

1920 Government of Ireland Act 23rd December and became operative in May 1921 – partitioned Ireland.

1921 Partition of Ireland Creation of Northern Ireland and Irish Free State.

22nd June – opened in Belfast City Hall by First Northern Ireland King George V. Parliament

War of Independence – Between July and December intensive Truce & Anglo-Irish negotiations lead to signing of Anglo- negotiations () Irish Treaty.

Anglo-Irish Treaty Signed 6th Dec 1921 debated in Dail Eireann 14th December – 7th January and carried by 64 to 57 votes. 1922 Irish Civil War Commences 28th June, lasts June 1922 to May 1923 – Divisions lead to brutal and

destructive conflict between pro-Treaty and anti-Treaty forces.

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1923 End of Irish Civil War Between 1,000 and 4,000 casualties (twice as many opponents executed by the

Irish Free State as were by the British 1916-1921).

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