The Irish War of Independence: Rise of the IRA (TRIH ep 576, part 1)
1916 · Resource
This episode, recorded at the Royal Irish Academy, is the first of a three-part series (1916–1921) on the Irish independence struggle. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Professor Paul Rouse, who outlines the deep historical background from medieval English incursions through the Reformation, plantations, the Great Famine and the Gaelic revival.
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Around 1916
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)