Timeline - Creative Centenaries

Creative Centuries
100 years ago, a succession of events unfolded across a ten-year period that would redefine the island of Ireland and its people forever.

The Ulster Crisis
Carson opposes Home Rule
Churchill supports Home Rule
Bonar Law pledges ‘unconditional support’
New Home Rule Bill
Ulster excluded
Ulster Day
Signing in blood
Ulster Volunteer Force
Ulster provisional government
Carson says no
The Curragh Incident
Unionist gunrunning
Home Rule Bill passed
Buckingham Palace conference
Ulster Volunteer Force
Ulster provisional government
Carson says no
The Curragh Incident
Unionist gunrunning
Home Rule Bill passed
Buckingham Palace conference
Rise Of The Labour Movement
Belfast on strike
Larkin mobilises workers
Larkin draws huge support
Irish Labour Party
Dublin workers sacked
Dublin Lock-Out begins
Larkin’s address
Irish Citizen Army
Lock-Out ends
Outbreak of First World War
Franz Ferdinand assassinated
Germany declares war
Britain declares war
War fever grips
Government of Ireland Act
10th (Irish) Division Formed
The Woodenbridge speech
Casement arrives in Berlin
Willie Redmond signs up
Ireland at War
Chlorine gas
Gallipoli Campaign begins
Torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania
Heavy casualties
Wartime coalition
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral
Gallipoli landings
The Easter Rising
The Irish Volunteers
Cumann na mBan
Howth gunrunning
Preparing a rising
IRB plans rebellion
Easter Sunday chosen
Precious cargo
Eoin MacNeill revokes orders
The Rising begins
The Proclamation
Markievicz’s commitment
Evacuation and surrender
Dublin in ruins
Britain’s reaction
Battle of the Somme
Irish men sign up
Reality of war
Going over the top
McFadzean’s bravery
Rather be an Ulsterman
Footage from the front
Retreat
Lloyd George’s Convention
‘The Irish Question’
New Prime Minister
Republican gains
Home Rule proposed again
De Valera has other ideas
De Valera wins at ballot box
Convention gets underway
De Valera becomes president of Sinn Féin
John Redmond dies
Final Convention meeting
Conscription for Ireland
Conscription opposed
Peace, Suffrage and General Election
Representation of the People Act
Spring Offensive begins
Armistice
Sinn Féin’s power increases
Markievicz makes history
Paris Peace Conference
Dáil Éireann established
A new declaration
First female cabinet minister
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles
War Of Independence
Beginning of the war
De Valera elected President of Dáil Éireann
Black and Tans deployed
Belfast Riots begin
Hunger strikes
Ulster Special Constabulary formed
Patrolling Dublin’s streets
Bloody Sunday
Kilmichael ambush
Martial law
Burning of Cork
Kilmichael ambush
Martial law
Burning of Cork
Government of Ireland Act
The Long Committee
A new bill
Unionist Council accepts Home Rule
Carson voices his feelings
Government of Ireland Act
Partition enacted
Southern elections
Northern elections
First Northern parliament
Parliament formally opened
Southern parliament meets
Northern elections
First Northern parliament
Parliament formally opened
Southern parliament meets
Anglo-Irish Treaty
Moves towards peace
Bloody Sunday
Truce
Final offer
Anglo-Irish Treaty
Freedom to achieve freedom
Irish Free State (Agreement) Act
Handover of power
Irish Free State Constitution Act
The North opts out
Civil War
Treaty split
De Valera resigns
Provisional government
Military handover
Four Courts occupied
Election
Civil War begins
Public records destroyed
Buildings come under fire in Dublin
Violence across the country
Men come under arrest
Collins is killed
Third Dáil
Ceasefire

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