Home Rule to the Rise of Sinn Féin

Ireland 1912-1916: An Animated History from Home Rule to Easter Rising

Home Rule Crisis


​Spartacus Educational - Irish Home Rule


History Hub - Prof. Michael Laffan Lectures

Lecture 1 - The Home Rule Party



Lecture 2 - The Home Rule Crisis


News Report on the 100th Anniversary of Howth Gunrunning


Lecture 3 - Griffith, Sinn Fein, the IRB and the lead up to the Rising


Home Rule and British Politics



From 1912 an original copy of ‘Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant’.


BBC Documentary

1916 Easter Rising


BBC History - 1916 Easter Rising

The 1916 Easter Rising and the War of Independence that followed in 1919-21 transformed the political landscape in Ireland. You can explore the events leading up to 1916, the Insurrection itself and its aftermath, through essays, photographs, sound archive, music and newspapers from the period. Click here!


​John D. Ruddy - The Easter Rising in 8 Minutes


​Miss Stout's History Class - 1916 Rising


Dr Conor Mulvagh, UCD - The Destruction of Dublin,
​1916


​Real Footage



The Irish Story - Arthur Griffith's Easter Week, 1916


Lecture 4 - The Easter Rising


Lecture 5 - Aftermath of the 1916 Rising and the 1917 By-Elections


BBC - Newspaper reactions to 1916


1916 Press Cuttings

A book of press cuttings from 1916 courtesy of the Bureau of Military History


Link - The 1916 Proclamation 


Radio Doc on 1

Irish Times Article

The First Dáil, 1919


Lecture 6 - The 1918 General Election


Video - "In the Summer after the Rising, the country changed"

Public opinion changed greatly between 1916 and the general election of December 1918. Members of the first Dáil recall what brought about this change.

Further Links

Easter 1916 - Excellent resource on 1916 Rising. Tells the story of the Rising and the key people involved.