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    • EARLY CHRISTIAN IRELAND
    • THE ENGLISH PATTERN OF SETTLEMENT IN IRELAND
    • 1798 IRISH REBELLION
    • THE GREAT FAMINE AND THE IRISH DIASPORA
    • THE PARLIAMENTARY TRADITION IN IRISH POLITICS
    • THE GAA
    • THE RISE OF NATIONALISM AND UNIONISM, 1911-23 >
      • HOME RULE CRISIS, 1912-14
      • 1916 RISING
      • RISE OF SINN FÉIN
      • IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1919-21
      • ANGLO-IRISH TREATY, 1921
      • IRISH CIVIL WAR, 1922-23
    • IRELAND AND THE WORLD AT WAR >
      • IRELAND DURING WORLD WAR I
      • IRELAND DURING WORLD WAR II
    • THE EUROPEAN UNION
    • IRELAND IN THE 1960s
    • THE TROUBLES IN NORTHERN IRELAND
    • WOMEN IN TWENTIETH CENTURY IRELAND
  • STRAND THREE
    • ANCIENT ROME
    • MEDIEVAL TIMES
    • THE RENAISSANCE
    • THE AGE OF EXPLORATION
    • THE REFORMATION
    • PRE TWENTIETH CENTURY REVOLUTION >
      • THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
      • THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
    • COMMUNISM AND FASCISM >
      • COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA
      • FASCISM IN ITALY
      • FASCISM IN GERMANY
    • WORLD WAR II
    • THE HOLOCAUST
    • THE COLD WAR
    • THE EUROPEAN UNION
    • EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD IN THE 1960s
    • TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
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IRELAND DURING WORLD WAR I

introduction

'IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY' 

A popular marching song among soldiers in the First World War.

OVERVIEW
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UK National archives - first world war 100

CENTURY IRELAND - EXPLAINER: THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Why did it start? Where was it fought? Who won and lost?
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enrs - Outbreak of the First World War


​BBC HISTORY -
IRELAND AND WORLD WAR ONE

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM - IRELAND'S ROLE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
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rtÉ - WORLd WAR 1


LIFE IN IRELAND
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the irish story -

ireland and the first world war

​‘A Declaration of War on the Irish People’ The Conscription Crisis of 1918

​​Opinion: Remembering World War I in Ireland
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the irish times - Ireland’s first World War veterans: Shunned, ostracised, murdered
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century ireland - November, 1918: Ireland & the End of the First World War


investigate a repository of historical evidence
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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND - WORLD WAR I ONLINE EXHIBITION

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​RTÉ ARCHIVES
- IRELAND AND THE GREAT WAR

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Library of Trinity College dublin - The Great war revisited


​national archives of ireland -
soldier's wills

The soldiers' will of poet Francis Ledwidge who died at the Battle of Passchendaele #OTD in 1917. #WWI #Passchendaele100 pic.twitter.com/Y6YUi84F05

— National Archives, Ireland (@NARIreland) July 31, 2017


tipperary county council library service - the irish great war dead archive


MORE RESOURCES
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creative centenaries - the battle of the somme


​An Irish Soldier describes World War One, 1988


​William orpen, irish artist, WWI PAINTINGS

Sir William Orpen World War I Portraits. from Dominic Lee on Vimeo.


RTÉ NEWS -

Ireland and World War One

Memorial unveiled for teenage boy who fought in WWI

BBC FUTURE - The WWI tank that helped change warfare forever


The irish times - Tom Kettle: In memory, 100 years after death at the Somme
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eric bogle - 

'The Green Fields of france'

'the band played waltzing matilda'

'all the fine young men'


​the irish times -
 Green Fields of France ‘written to tackle anti-Irish prejudice’
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​CREATIVE CENTENARIES - GRAPHIC NOVELS -

Battle of the Somme: the story of William McFadzean

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Francis Ledwidge - Ireland's Soldier Poet
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The Battle of Messines: the story of John Meeke and William Redmond
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The Sinking of the Lusitania
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retrieval challenge grid

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FOCUS TASK
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Design a recruitment poster calling on Irish men to join the British army and fight in World War One. 

REVISION
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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • A POSSIBLE APPROACH
  • STRAND ONE
    • THINK LIKE A HISTORIAN
  • STRAND TWO
    • EARLY CHRISTIAN IRELAND
    • THE ENGLISH PATTERN OF SETTLEMENT IN IRELAND
    • 1798 IRISH REBELLION
    • THE GREAT FAMINE AND THE IRISH DIASPORA
    • THE PARLIAMENTARY TRADITION IN IRISH POLITICS
    • THE GAA
    • THE RISE OF NATIONALISM AND UNIONISM, 1911-23 >
      • HOME RULE CRISIS, 1912-14
      • 1916 RISING
      • RISE OF SINN FÉIN
      • IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1919-21
      • ANGLO-IRISH TREATY, 1921
      • IRISH CIVIL WAR, 1922-23
    • IRELAND AND THE WORLD AT WAR >
      • IRELAND DURING WORLD WAR I
      • IRELAND DURING WORLD WAR II
    • THE EUROPEAN UNION
    • IRELAND IN THE 1960s
    • THE TROUBLES IN NORTHERN IRELAND
    • WOMEN IN TWENTIETH CENTURY IRELAND
  • STRAND THREE
    • ANCIENT ROME
    • MEDIEVAL TIMES
    • THE RENAISSANCE
    • THE AGE OF EXPLORATION
    • THE REFORMATION
    • PRE TWENTIETH CENTURY REVOLUTION >
      • THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
      • THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
    • COMMUNISM AND FASCISM >
      • COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA
      • FASCISM IN ITALY
      • FASCISM IN GERMANY
    • WORLD WAR II
    • THE HOLOCAUST
    • THE COLD WAR
    • THE EUROPEAN UNION
    • EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD IN THE 1960s
    • TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    • PATTERNS OF CHANGE >
      • HEALTH AND MEDICINE [OPTION ONE]
  • ASSESSMENT
    • CBA 1: THE PAST IN MY PLACE
    • CBA 2: A LIFE IN TIME
    • ASSESSMENT TASK
    • EXAM HUB
  • ACTION VERBS FOR LEARNING OUTCOMES
  • HISTORY MATTERS 365 BLOG
  • TEACHING STRATEGIES
  • WEBLINKS
  • CHRONICLES
  • TEACHER MAILING LIST
  • MY CLASSROOM
  • CONTACT