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causes deep-rooted in RELIGION and HISTORY tragic events regarding the struggle for Irish independence major issue of British politics of the first half of the XX century

1877; Charles Stuart PARNELL leader of Party they exploited the fact that Britain was occupied with the war Yeats's poem Easter 1916 they proclaimed an Easter Monday 1916 Sinn Féin - Irish volunteers the rebellion was crushed organised a rebellion the British executed the leaders of the movement it became a legendary symbol of Irish heroism in the face of oppression

The Sinn Féin MPs refused to take their seats in Westminster the Sinn Fein party (an Irish name they set up an Irish Parliament in , the Dail, meaning: Ourselves alone) won 1918 election and once more proclaimed an Irish Republic nearly all the seats except in On September 11, 1919, the British declared the Dáil an illegal XX CENTURY assembly, being still part of the United Kingdom. HISTORY The Irish Question and 1919: the Irish volunteers became the IRA () Easter 1920: civil war the Michael Collins leadership of Eamon de Valera (1882-1975)

self-governing state but a dominion of the Empire they shared the monarch as head of state

4,000 killed treaty was not accepted by the assembly in Dublin 1922-23: civil war

1921: Irish seeds of the tragic events hostility, sometimes open violence Free State of the 1970s and 1980s majority Protestant Unionists against six predominantly Protestant within the North of Ireland the minority Catholic Republicans counties of Ulster remained part of the United Kingdom with arrangements for joint government of their own parliament in 1998: the Good the province by the two communities Friday Agreement as well as for increased cooperation between the north and the south

1937: Eire (Gaelic name for Ireland) - new constitution - member of Commonwealth

1949: full independence proclamation of the and end of Commonwealth membership

HISTORY_IRISH_QUESTION.mmap - 04/04/2013 - Serenella Valori