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Events relating to ireland
Half a million Unionist men and women in Belfast commit themselves to civil disobedience if Home Rule government is established in Ireland
Unionists in Ulster aim to raise a Volunteer Force of 100,000 men, and begin drilling with dummy wooden rifles
John Ireland sets Masefield's poem Sea Fever to music
The Irish National Volunteers are formed in Dublin, in response to the Protestant equivalent in Ulster
British officers stationed at the Curragh in Dublin say they would resign if ordered to quell Protestant resistance in Ulster
More than 1000 die when the liner Empress of Ireland sinks after a collision in the St Lawrence river
After years of delay James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of short stories, is published
A Home Rule Act is finally passed for Ireland, with its implementation postponed until after the war
Robert Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is published posthumously in an abbreviated version
Erskine Childers sails his own yacht from Germany to Ireland with 900 rifles and 14,000 rounds of ammunition for the Irish Volunteers
Roger Casement travels to Germany to persuade Irish prisoners of war to change sides and invade Ireland
The Irish painter Jack Yeats develops a romantic Expressionist style, with a new interest in Celtic myth
The occupation of the General Post Office in Dublin marks the beginning of the Easter Rising
The rebel leader Patrick Pearse stands under the portico of Dublin's General Post Office to announce the birth of the Irish republic
Roger Casement is arrested after returning secretly to Ireland three days before the Easter Rising
Eamon de Valera comes to prominence as one of the republican leaders in the Easter Rising
Patrick Pearse and his fellow Irish rebel James Connolly are executed by firing squad
John Ireland's Second Violin Concerto meets with immediate approval
Eamon de Valera, newly released from prison, is elected to lead Sinn Fein
The British viceroy in Dublin imprisons 73 Sinn Fein leaders, including Eamon de Valera, on allegations of a German plot
Countess Markiewicz, an Irish republican, is elected a member of Britain's House of Commons but refuses to take her seat
The Sinn Fein members elected to Westminster establish their own parliament in Dublin, the Dáil Eireann (Assembly of Ireland), soon declared illegal by Britain
The armed supporters of Sinn Fein become the IRA, or Irish Republican Army, in Ireland's war of independence
Michael Collins springs de Valera from Lincoln gaol, with the help of a duplicate key
Returning from active service with the Royal Navy, Erskine Childers devotes his energies to Sinn Fein and Irish independence
