What impact did each event have on the history of the conflict

The revolutionary Nationalists in Ireland used the war as an excuse to stage an armed uprising in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916. After a week of violence these rebels eventually surrendered. These leaders became martyrs as they were executed by the British without a trial. There was a very angry reaction to the Easter Uprising by the Irish population.

There was a lot of damage and disruption caused. The public opinion radically changed and they were out raged by the British response towards this rebellion. The support for Sinn Fein increased and even by 1917 Sinn Fein won the election.From 1918 there was many long term consequences caused by the Easter Uprising. They started in 1918 when Sinn Fein took a landslide in the general election, from then onwards long term consequences of the Easter Uprising have gone all the way up to 1968. as Sinn Fein had won the election they then took matters into their own hands and decided to do what they want when they want.

The Sinn Fein MPs refused to go to Westminster to set up a deal with the British MPs. Instead in the same year they set up their own police force which was legal and was also the beginning on the I. R. A. From 1919 through to 1921, there was what you could call an uneasy peace.Well that was up until 1920 when the I.

R. A began a Guerilla war against the Royal Constabulary. This war was given the name 'The War Of Independence'. The war of independence started on 21st of January 1919 when the I. R.

A killed 2 policemen I county Tipperary. The R. I. C were armed and still controlled by the British. The I.

R. A staged surprise attacks on police stations and patrols, suspected police informers were shot. In the end it forced the R. I. C to send it their reinforcements.These were given the name 'Black And Tans' because of their makeshift uniforms.

The Black and Tans were soon given the reputation of great brutality and I. R. A suspects were beaten and often killed. The Black and Tans didn't just stop there, after an I. R.

A attack they would then finish the job off by burning down the houses of local catholics. In 1920 there was an act set up by the British government and it was named The Government Of Ireland Act. The British governments idea was to split Ireland into 2 separate parts and let each side rule for itself.In the Northern side of Ireland the Ulster Protestants didn't want a separate Ireland so they gave full support to the British. In the end the support from these Protestant wasn't good enough and both the Protestants and the British gave into a separate Ireland. Also in that year the six most protestant counties of Ulster were given their own parliament and government.

There was a large catholic minority in these six counties and in 2 of the 6 there was more Catholics than Protestants. This did not matter though and the new parliament of Northern Ireland was called Stormont.Stormont was to have power over any rulings in the north but the new state was to stay part of the UK The southern side of Ireland were with the government of Ireland act. Although in 1921 a group of leading Sinn Fein and I.

R. A members went to London to talk to the British Government. In December 1921 they left London having signed a treaty with the British accepting that Ireland was temporarily divided. This therefore meant that the 26 counties of Southern Ireland became known as free state.

This was a free state but initially it stayed part of the British Commonwealth.From 1922 through to around 1968 things changed dramatically in the North side of Ireland. The Catholic in Northern Ireland were oppressed, made second best. The Protestants treated Catholics like this because they were a Protestant parliament and a Protestant state. Also every Protestant saw the Catholics as a possible traters, they thought that the Catholics would of wanted Ireland to be one.

To make them feel like second class citizens they would use such tactics as Gerrymandering the local borders to give Unionist candidates a better chance of winning.This was a way o gaining more land and with this land it meant that they would have more people to vote for them. They would also discriminate against the Catholics through the employment side of things and the housing, but overall the general law. It took the Catholics a long time to fight back but in 1967 the C.

R. A was founded. 'Civil Rights Movement'. The Catholic gathered all their inspiration from Martin Luther King as they realised that they were in the same situation as himself. The C. R.

A was to protect the Catholic minority from all Political, Housing and Employment rights.Deployment Of Troops When the British troops were first sent into Northern Ireland the Catholics were initially pleased to see them. As they weren't so keen to see the return of the I. R. A and felt that the British would protect from the Protestants. When the soldiers first arrived on the streets the Catholics were so pleased that they greeted them with cups of tea and sandwiches.

For once they felt save to walk along there own streets again. This atmosphere didn't last long amongst the Soldiers and the Catholics. It wasn't long before the occasional clumsy brutality on the part of the British provoked an angry reaction from the population.It therefore wasn't difficult for an I. R.

A to use this reaction to their own ends. The British army was trained to aggressive and on the 27th June 1970 for the first time armed provisionals appeared on the streets to challenge the U. V. F (Ulster Volunteer Force). This gun fight lasted all night and by the of it there were 5 people killed, 3 Protestants.

The armys response to this was to get tough and on the 3rd July they went on a rage through the Catholics homes to search for arms. This led to allegations of damaged property and the Catholics were told to stay inside. This lasted 36 hours.This was the beginning of the atmosphere changing amongst the soldiers and the Catholics. Although all these things happened the main thing that changed their opinion towards the soldiers was when they join up and helped Mr Brian Faulkner.

Faulkner was the last Stormont prime minister and joined in March 1971. in March when Faulkner joined the provos were in the middle of a bombing campaign and it actually reached the stage were they had realised 304 bombs between January and July. Faulkner then came up with the idea to stop all violence and to this he was going to use internment.The reason for this idea was because when he was a young politician he helped to deal with the last outbreak of I.

R. A violence and internment was used then. The thing that really bugged the Catholics about this idea was the fact that he had said that internment was to be used against any suspected terrorists, Protestants as well as Catholics. The fact that the British troops had first come over to protect the Catholics and now they were just arresting them for doing nothing. That's why the Catholics opinion really changed.

Bloody SundayBloody Sunday was on the 30th January in 1972, and on this day the Parrotroopers were held responsible for the death of 13 Catholics. The Parrotroopers went in a fired 180 rounds and out of this these people were killed. The Provisionals decided to take action to 'Bloody Sunday' and they targeted all Protestant businesses. They delivered 20 bombs in 2 weeks.

With this bombing masac the Provos had ended up flantening the centre of Londondery. One of the main short term consequences ofBloody Sunday was that Stormont was suspended. Bernadette Devlin was an eye witness to the shootings on Bloody Sunday and also a member of the House of Commons.The reason for this suspension was that in Dublin 20,000 people were attacking the British embassy and burnt it down. The prime minister then felt he had to step in so he suspended Stomont.

In the end of all this a Direct Rule from London was introduced, which meant that Northern Ireland could no longer rule for its self and had to go by what the London Parliament said. On the long-term side of things for Bloody Sunday, there was a 'Bloody Friday', which was made by the I. R. A. this was given the name when the I.

R. A planted 26 bombs inside of cars and gave no warning to the public.As the I. R. A were so bothered about the fact that they couldn't rule themselves they wanted the British to talk.

They realised that if bombing Belfast wouldn't work then they would start hitting places in Britain. In 1974 they actually planted bombs in Britain and this was their lead on from both Bloody Sunday and Bloody Friday. The I. R. A planted a bomb in two pubs in Birmingham and gave no warning. They explodided and 19 people were killed.

They also hit a pub in Guildford. Four people were jailed for that incident. Although this bomb was I 1975 a year before the same bomb took place and 5 people were killed.