Decade of Centenaries | Ulster 1885 - 1925

/Home Rule

Home Rule Crisis 1912-14

NMNI Decade of Centenaries collection that features a wide range of printed political material, postcards and posters, badges, letters and photographs and firearms.

Irish Home Rule: An imagined future

BBC History article on Home Rule.

Home Rule

Houses of Parliament article about Home Rule.

Origins of Home Rule

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Home Rule - The Elections of 1885 & 1886

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

/Nationalism

NMNI Irish Nationalism

NMNI Decade of Centenaries collection features artefacts relating to Irish Nationalism.

Nationalism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

QUB Irish History Live article.

Irish Ireland

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Nationality, Nation, Nationalism

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

John Redmond

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

John Redmond

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

/Unionism

NMNI Irish Unionism

NMNI Decade of Centenaries collection features artefacts relating to Irish Unionism.

Nationalism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

QUB Irish History Live article.

Maturing of Irish Unionism

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Unionist Culture

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Sir Edward Carson

BBC History profile of Sir Edward Carson.

/Labour Movement

Dublin, 1913 - Strike and Lockout

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

NMNI Labour Movement

NMNI Decade of Centenaries collection includes items relating to trade union movements and those relevant and connected to everyday working-class life.

A Short History of the ICTU

An article on the history of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

The Irish Women Workers’ Union

An article on the history of the Irish Women's Workers' Union

1907 Belfast Strike

Culture Northern Ireland article on the 1907 Belfast Strike.

Belfast Dockers' Strike 100 years on

Culture Northern Ireland article in which John Quinn explores one of the city's most dramatic episodes.

In Belfast Shipyard workers struck on Monday

Spectator article from their archives detailing the Belfast Strike.

/Voting Rights

The Suffrage Movement in Ireland, 1870–1914

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Anna Haslam's Minute Book

The National Archives online exhibition about the minute book of Anna Haslam (1829–1922), a key figure in the 19th and early 20th-century women’s movement in Ireland.

Suffragette

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Century: Women and the Vote

Irish Times articles on the suffrage movement in Ireland.

The International story of the Women’s Suffrage movement

RTE's Century Ireland article on Women's suffrage movement

The Suffragette Struggle in Ulster

Newsletter article commemorating 100 years since the first suffragettes were imprisoned for their actions in attempting to secure women’s right to vote.

Representation of the People Act 1918

Houses of Parliament Living History article on Representation of the People Act 1918.

Third Reform Act 1884

Houses of Parliament Living History article on reform acts and representative democracy.

/Parliament

Hansard

Hansard contains the official report of debates in Parliament as well as Written Answers, Written Statements, Lords reports and Grand Committee reports.

The Anglo-Irish

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914

William Ewart Gladstone

Government website providing articles on past prime ministers.

Arthur James Balfour

Government website providing articles on past prime ministers.

Herbert Henry Asquith

Government website providing articles on past prime ministers.

David Lloyd George

Government website providing articles on past prime ministers.

Irish Statute Book

The electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) includes acts of the Oireachtas and Statutory Instruments.

Acts of the Northern Ireland Parliament

Legislation.gov.uk website providing acts of the Northern Ireland Parliament passed since 1922.

The Stormont Papers

50 years of parliamentary debates online from 1921 to 1972.

Northern Ireland House of Commons

A summary of election results to the Northern Ireland House of Commons from 1921.

The Admission of Women to the National University of Ireland

Education Research and Perspectives Journal article on the 1908 Irish Universities Act.

/Industry

Industrialisation

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Belfast's Golden Age of Shipbuilding

BBC History article on shipbuilding in Belfast.

Shipbuilding in Belfast

Culture Northern Ireland article which gives an overview of the historic shipbuilding industry in Belfast.

Shirt Industry

Culture Northern Ireland article which gives an overview of the textile Industry in Derry.

The Story Of Irish Linen

Culture Northern Ireland article which provides an overview of the Irish Linen Industry.

In Pictures: Historic Ulster - linen, horses and the shipyard

Photographs from Belfast Telegraph depicting linen and ship building industries in Ulster.

/Easter Rising

The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives

National Library of Ireland website that draws almost exclusively upon its rich holdings of books, newspapers, photographs, drawings, proclamations and manuscript material.

NMNI Easter Rising

This section on the Rising includes material connected to its leaders and aims.

BBC Easter Rising

BBC History website that explores the issues around the 1916 Easter Rising.

RTE 1916

Online exhibition featuring recorded interviews with participants in the Easter Rising of 1916 and the War of Independence.

Easter Rising Collection

Belfast Telegraph Decade of Centenaries Easter Rising collection featuring images from the Linen Hall library.

The Easter Rising

Guardian article about the Easter Rising.

Executed leaders of the Easter Rising

Department of the Taoiseach article on the leaders of the Easter Rising.

/Partition

The First Dáil

RTE online exhibition about the First Dáil (An Chéad Dáil) as it convened from 1919-1921.

National Archives Ireland online exhibition about the Anglo-Irish Treaty which draws almost exclusively upon the rich documentary holdings of original Irish Government records held in the National Archives.

Constitution of the Irish Free State

Irish Statute Book text from the Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) Act, 1922

Government of Ireland Act 1920

CAIN website containing text from the Government of Ireland Act 1920.

Acts of the Northern Ireland Parliament

Legislation.gov.uk website providing acts of the Northern Ireland Parliament passed since 1922.

/First World War

NMNI The First World War

NMNI Decade of Centenaries collection deals with recruitment to the forces, including not just infantry, but sailors, airmen and medical and nursing practitioners in the First World War.

Royal Irish

Royal Irish Virtual Military Gallery which provides three centuries of history of the Royal Irish regiments including the Royal Irish Rifles, Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

A Family at War

An online exhibition of the diary of Mary Martin, a widow and mother of twelve children, living in the affluent Dublin suburb of Monkstown.

National Archives Ireland Soldiers' wills

The National Archives of Ireland holds a collection of the wills of Irish soldiers who died while serving in the British army.

British Pathé WWI collection

British Pathé collection of silent video archive of the First World War.

RTE Ireland and the Great War

RTE website that looks at Ireland and the Great War.

Imperial War Museum

Lives of the First World War aims to gather life Stories of over 8 million men and women from across Britain and the Commonwealth who served in uniform and worked on the home front during the First World War.

Belfast Telegraph WWI

Belfast Telegraph photograph collection relating to World War One.

Countdown to War

Irish Times article on World War One.

First World War

Collection of articles from the Guardian on the First World War.

Post War Peace Treaties

National Archives Cabinet papers 1915 - 84 articles and documents concerning the First World War.

Total War

National Archives Cabinet papers 1915 - 84 articles of post-WWI treaties.

/Gaelic Revival

Cultural Nationalism

Article from the BBC History Easter Rising 1916 website about Irish cultural nationalism.

Irish Ireland

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Cultural Nationalism

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Anglo-Irish Literary Revival

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Feis na nGleann

Culture Northern Ireland article in which Grainne McNally celebrates a century of Gaelic tradition in the Glens of Antrim.

/Welfare

Social Conditions in Belfast

Article from National Archives Ireland giving an overview of social conditions in Edwardian Belfast.

Belfast Central Mission

Information concerning Belfast Central Mission archive of some 25,000 items, including both documentary and photographic materials.

Improvements in Health Care

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

History of Belfast City Hospital

An Article from Ulster Medical Society on Belfast City Hospital.

History of the Workhouse in Pictures

Guardian article on the history of workhouses in the UK.

Belfast Workhouses

Article on the Belfast Charitable Society and Poor Law Union.

Belfast Back Streets

BBC slideshow on the back streets of Belfast from a century ago.

Lloyd George Coalition

National Archives article on post-WWI unemployment.

Pre 1945 Health Provision

National Archives articles on health provision before 1945, including the Poor Law and National Insurance Act 1911.

/Lloyd George Convention

The Irish Convention

The Irish convention as proposed by Premier David Lloyd George; the opinions of prominent Americans of Irish blood (1917)

Lloyd George Negotiations

QUB Irish History Live article.

David Lloyd George

Government website providing articles on past prime ministers.

/Ulster Covenant

Ulster Covenant

PRONI articles relating to the Ulster Covenant.

Ulster Covenant

Belfast Telegraph collection of images relating to the Ulster Covenant.

Ulster Covenant

BBC History events page relating to the Ulster Covenant.

/Civil War

Fighting In Ireland

British Pathé silent video clip about the Civil War in Ireland.

In the wake of the Four Courts Battle

British Pathé silent video clip with views of the republican stronghold aflame immediately after rebels were routed by Free State troops.

Ireland's Dead Leader

British Pathé silent video clip about Michael Collins death.

Partition and Irish Civil War

National Archives Cabinet papers 1915 - 1984 article on partition and the Irish Civil War

The Civil War 1922 - 1923

Óglaigh na hÉireann - Defence Forces of Ireland article on the civil war.

/War of Independence

Google Cultural Institute Witness to War

Collection of National Library of Ireland images and text illustrating the War of Independence in Ireland.

Treaty Exhibition

National Archives Online exhibition about the Anglo-Irish Treaty which draws almost exclusively upon the rich documentary holdings of original Irish government records held in the National Archives.

Terror in Ireland 1920

British Pathé silent news report from Ireland 1920 showing crowds running and the army arriving and removing victims.

Lawless Ireland

British Pathé silent news report featuring 'Sacked' Balbriggan, reported to be the work of the 'Black and Tans' as reprisals'.

Evacuation of Ireland

British Pathé silent news report showing the vanguard of the 60,000 British troops leave for England.

Anglo Irish Treaty

CAIN website containing text of the Anglo-Irish Treaty Articles of Agreement as signed on December 6th, 1921.

Irish Independence

National Archives Cabinet papers 1915 - 1984 article on nationalism and the War of Independence in Ireland.

Nationalism and the War of Independence

National Archives Cabinet papers 1915 - 1984 collection of documents relating to Irish independence.

War of Independence

Óglaigh na hÉireann - Defence Forces of Ireland article on War of Independence.

Killing and Bloody Sunday, November 1920

The Historical Journal article on the killing of suspected British spies by the IRA on Bloody Sunday.

/Military & Policing

British Troops in Ireland.

British Pathé silent montage of clips showing British troops in Ireland.

British Troops leaving Ireland - Erin's farewell

British Pathé silent news clip showing vast crowds cheer departing British troops who left with bands playing and colours flying. Dublin, Southern Ireland, Eire.

Evacuation of Ireland

British Pathé silent news report showing the vanguard of the 60,000 British troops leave for England.

Irish Volunteers

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914

Militarism and Separatism

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914

Ireland's War of Independence: The chilling story of the Black and Tans

Guardian article on the War of Independence and the Black and Tans.

The Civil War 1922 - 1923

Óglaigh na hÉireann - Defence Forces of Ireland article on the civil war.

Foundation Of The Volunteers

Óglaigh na hÉireann - Defence Forces of Ireland article on the foundation of the Irish Volunteers

A History of Policing in Ireland

PSNI article about the history of policing in Ireland.

/Shipbuilding

Titanica

NMNI online exhibition on the Titanic.

In Pictures: Historic Ulster - linen, horses and the shipyard

Photographs from The Belfast Telegraph depicting linen and ship building industries in Ulster.

Belfast's Golden Age of Shipbuilding

BBC History article on shipbuilding in Belfast

Shipbuilding in Belfast

Culture Northern Ireland article which gives an overview of the historic shipbuilding industry in Belfast.

/Land Question

Landlordism

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Land and Politics

Houses of Parliament Living Heritage article on land reform in Ireland.

Land Reform

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914

Land Law Act Ireland 1896

Irish Statute Book Land Law Act Ireland legislation.

Wyndham Land Act 1903

Wyndham Land Act 1903 legislation.

William Ewart Gladstone

Government website providing articles on past prime ministers.

George Wyndham in Belfast

Article from 1902 edition of the Spectator concerning an announcement by George Wyndham.

Letters of George Wyndham

Archive.org transcripts of George Wyndham's letters while chief secretary of state of Ireland.

/Textiles

Shirt Industry

Culture Northern Ireland article which gives an overview of the textile industry in Derry.

The Story Of Irish Linen

Culture Northern Ireland article which provides an overview of the Irish linen industry.

In Pictures: Historic Ulster - linen, horses and the shipyard

Photographs from Belfast Telegraph depicting linen and ship building industries in Ulster.

/Republicanism

The First Sinn Féin Party

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Militarism and Separatism

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Sinn Féin

BBC History Easter Rising Website article on the origins of Sinn Féin.

Irish Republican Brotherhood

University College Dublin article on the IRB.

Irish Republican Brotherhood

BBC History Easter Rising Website article on the IRB.

Arthur Griffith

Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914.

Michael Collins

BBC History article on Michael Collins.

/Empire

Maps in Time

National Archives Maps in Time showing the decline of empire throughout the 20th century.

Empire and Seapower

BBC History articles on British Empire.

Queen Victoria

Profile of Queen Victoria from the official site of the British monarchy.

Empire Timeline

BBC Radio 4 interactive map timeline of the British Empire.

/General

CRC Marking Anniversaries

Community Relations Council NI information on marking the anniversaries of events between 2012 and 2023.

Decade of Centenaries lectures

Community Relations Council NI Decade of Centenaries series of lectures available on YouTube.

Century Ireland

RTE's online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago.

NMNI Decade of Centenaries collection

NMNI Decade of Centenaries collection explores this defining period of our history that includes the signing of the Ulster Covenant, the Battle of the Somme, the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the establishment of Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.