Irish Political and Social History

The Potato Famine

• The Potato famine

• Ireland the great famine

• http://www.victorianweb.org/history/famine.html

• http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/index.htm

Catholic Emancipation

• http://www.victorianweb.org/history/emancipation2.html

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRcatholic.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Emancipation

• http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/ireland/peelcema.htm

Easter Rising 1916

• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1916_easter_rising.htm

• http://users.bigpond.net.au/kirwilli/1916/

• http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/history/east1916.html

• http://www.irelandforvisitors.com/articles/easter1916.htm

Misc.

• http://www2.cruzio.com/~sbarrett/mcollins.htm Michael Collins

• http://www.proni.gov.uk/ulstercovenant/index.html Ulster Covenant - Nearly half a million signatures and addresses of protestant men and women, who signed on the 28th of September 1912 in an objection to giving Ireland home rule.