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'IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY'
A popular marching song among soldiers in the First World War.
OVERVIEW
CENTURY IRELAND - EXPLAINER: THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Why did it start? Where was it fought? Who won and lost?
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
rtÉ - WORLd WAR 1
LIFE IN IRELAND
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
the irish times - Ireland’s first World War veterans: Shunned, ostracised, murdered
century ireland - November, 1918: Ireland & the End of the First World War
investigate a repository of historical evidence
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND - WORLD WAR I ONLINE EXHIBITION
RTÉ ARCHIVES - IRELAND AND THE GREAT WAR
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
creative centenaries - the battle of the somme
An Irish Soldier describes World War One, 1988
William orpen, irish artist, WWI PAINTINGS
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
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’
CREATIVE CENTENARIES - GRAPHIC NOVELS -
Battle of the Somme: the story of William McFadzean
Francis Ledwidge - Ireland's Soldier Poet
The Battle of Messines: the story of John Meeke and William Redmond
The Sinking of the Lusitania
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FOCUS TASK
Design a recruitment poster calling on Irish men to join the British army and fight in World War One.