When did Britain join WW1?
4 August 1914
What did Ireland agree to do regarding the war on 3 August 1914?
Defend Ireland itself
When was the Woodenbridge speech
20 September 1914
What division did the unionists fight for?
36th Ulster Division
What divisions did the nationalists fight for?
10th and 16th divisions
What did Redmond say Ireland would do at Woodenbridge?
Ireland would go ‘wherever the firing line extends’
What groups did the IVF split into?
Irish Volunteers (MacNeill) and National Volunteers (Redmond)
Who wrote the Sinn Fein newspaper?
Griffith
What was Connolly’s slogan?
‘we serve neither king nor kaiser but ireland’
how many joined redmond and the NV?
158,000
how many joined macneill and the IV?
12,000
when did the liberal-conservative government form?
may 1915
when was gallipoli?
May 1915
when was the battle of the somme
July 1916
how many died in the first day at the battle of the somme
20,000
who wasnt part of the cabinet of may 1915
redmond
why did redmond make ireland join the war effort
-help protect ‘little belgium’
-good hr deal
-gratitude for hr
-north had joined
whose funeral did pearse speak at to stir up nationalists in june 1915
o’donovan rossa
who didnt allow redmond to have his own division in ww1
lord kitchener
what did redmond want to call the irish division
the irish brigade
who was lord kitchener
secretary of state for war
what is redmonds language at woodenbridge inspired by
irb
