BBC

The partition of Ireland - CCEA

Before 1922, all of Ireland was ruled directly from Westminster close WestminsterThe London location of the British government.. However, many Irish people wanted independence from Britain. Those who ...
BBC

The events leading to partition

On 29th April 1916, a crowd of curious Dubliners watched as a large group of men in the uniform of Irish Volunteers was led away by British soldiers. The locals reacted angrily, jeering the men. They ...
The Irish Times

Partition was a male invention. Gender impacted on how revolutionary events unfolded, and how partition was remembered

This year marks the centenary of the Boundary Commission, which operated from 1924 to 1925. The commission was tasked with surveying the provisional Border between the Irish Free State and Northern ...
Irish Central

The culture and the centenary of the Irish partition

This week marks 100 years since the Government of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain divided Ireland into two self-governing polities. Stephen O’Neill’s Irish Culture and Partition ...
Irish Central

Irish government to help North commemorate Irish partition?

Is the Irish government making plans to commemorate the creation of partition in 1921? That could be the inference of a speech by Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan at the Fine Gael national conference ...