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1541
Henry 8th
Henry 8th was proclaimed as King of Ireland. His daughter Elisabeth 1st wanted to colonise Ireland, especially Ulster, because it was a great place to farm at. So with them colonizing Ireland it would become a part of England and Scotland (The protestant settlers). -
William of Orange
King of England, Scotland, Ireland from 1689. Prince of Orange from birth. He is sometimes informally known as "King Billy" in Northern Ireland and Scotland, where his victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 is still commemorated by Unionists and Ulster loyalists, often showing orange colours in his honour (orange march). -
Battle of Boyne
A decisive battle for the throne of England, was fought in Ireland between the deposed King James 2nd of England with his Catholic army and his son-in-law William of Orange with his Protestant army. William won, and ever since the Battle of Boyne, Protestants celebrate their victory by marching parading orange flags. -
The United Kingdom
The Kingdom of Ireland, joined a Union consisting of Scotland, England and Wales. Therefore they formed the United Kingdom -
W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats born in Dublin, June 13th, 1865 and died in France 1939. He lived both in Dublin and London where his family moved back and forth. He was a poet who's literature was very popular. He wrote the poem "Easter 1916". -
Eamon de Valera
Eamon De Valera was an Irish Politician, prime minister in 1932-48, 1951-54 and 1957-59 and president in 1959-73. He was born in Manhatten, New York the 14 October 1882. And moved to Dublin in Ireland and died at the age of 92. In 1916 he participated in Easter Resurrection in Dublin og founded in 1926 the elitist party fianna fáil. -
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World War 1
The 1st World War broke out and many Irish soldiers participated on the British side. But at the same time there was increasing unrest culminating in the Easter Rebellion -
The Easter Rebellion
The rebellion was crushed, and some of the most important leaders got executed -
The partition in Ireland
The British passed the Government of Ireland Act, which divided Ireland into two separate political entities. They each have the power of self-government. The Act was accepted by Ulster Protestants but rejected by southern Catholics, who still demanded for a total independence and unified Ireland. -
The Irish Free State
23 southern counties and 3 counties in Ulster became a part of the Irish Free State. There were still 6 counties of Ulster, which became of the northern Ireland, who remained part of the United Kingdom due to its protestant and unionist history. -
Easter 1916
The poem "Easter 1916" is written by W.B. Yeats. It is one of his most famous poems. It is a commentary on this tragic event (The Easter Rising) which transcends mere personal opinion to achieve pure tragic symbolism that is relevant to all such events in human history. -
An independent republic
The Irish Free State became an independent republic. In 1949 it becomes the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Free State is not quite seperated from England (part of the english crown). Republic of Ireland = not a part of England. -
Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the Easter Rebellion
Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the Easter Rebellion by Eamon de Valera. He commemorated those who gave their lives at the Easter Rising but also emphasising the Irish Language as a big part of their nationhood.
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The Troubles
The Troubles, also called Northern Ireland conflict, violent sectarian conflict from about 1968 to 1998 in Northern Ireland between the overwhelmingly Protestant unionists (loyalists), who desired the province to remain part of the United Kingdom, and the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nationalists (republicans), who wanted Northern Ireland to become part of the republic of Ireland. -
Cal
It is a novel published in 1983 while the troubles were happening. It is about a boy who is a Catholic but lives in Northern Ireland which is split up between the Catholics, who have run away frightened, and the Protestants who sort of have the power. -
Good Friday Agreement
The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement is a pair of agreements signed April 10th, 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles. It served as a major development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s. Northern Ireland's present devolved system of government is based on the agreement. The agreement also created a number of institutions between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. -
Good Girl
The short story Good Girl is published in 2001 a few years after the Good Friday Agreement. The short story is about a girl Chrissy who is a Catholic but falls in love with a guy who is a Protestant. Some older girls find out and end up kidnapping and torturing Chrissy for not being a good Catholic girl who doesn't blend in with the Protestants. -
Derry Girls
The series is set in Derry, Northern Ireland at the times of the troubles, 1990. The series is about a group of girls who goes to an all-girls catholic school. The atmosphere isn't that affected of the troubles at least not for the kids in the group of friends. They live as any other normal teenagers, despite the fact that they aren’t allowed to talk to the protestants and that there is a few things that indicated the troubles “the bomb at the bridge, the van witch was stolen to smuggle weapons.
