Ireland and World War I | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-16

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00:03:19 1 Prelude to the Great War
00:03:29 1.1 Political climate in Ireland
00:04:40 1.2 Nationalist response
00:07:56 1.2.1 Redmond's Woodenbridge speech
00:09:47 1.3 Unionist response
00:11:42 2 Recruitment
00:13:51 2.1 Decline in recruitment
00:16:24 2.2 German support to separatists
00:17:31 3 Irish Divisions
00:19:33 3.1 10th Division
00:21:47 3.2 16th Division
00:27:12 3.3 36th Division
00:29:52 3.4 Irish regiments
00:32:24 4 Theatres of War
00:32:33 4.1 Western Front
00:32:42 4.1.1 First shot
00:33:14 4.1.2 Mons, Givenchy, 1914
00:35:43 4.1.3 St Julien, 1915
00:36:19 4.1.4 Dublin, 1916
00:38:18 4.1.5 Hulluch, 1916
00:39:03 4.1.6 Battle of the Somme, 1916
00:40:36 4.1.7 Messines Ridge, June 1917
00:41:59 4.1.8 Passchendaele, July 1917
00:43:03 4.1.9 Spring Offensive, March 1918
00:43:55 4.2 Middle East Fronts
00:44:05 4.2.1 Gallipoli, 1915
00:46:01 4.2.2 Serbia, 1915
00:47:08 4.2.3 Greece, 1916
00:48:05 4.2.4 Palestine, 1917
00:49:08 4.2.5 France, 1918
00:49:45 5 Casualties
00:51:20 6 Demobilisation and post war experience
00:56:08 7 Commemoration
00:56:17 7.1 In the Free State and the Republic of Ireland
01:00:21 7.2 In Northern Ireland
01:01:43 8 Memorials
01:02:15 9 Infantry and Special Reserve regiments raised in Ireland
01:02:27 10 See also



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During World War I (1914–1918), Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which entered the war in August 1914 as one of the Entente Powers, along with France, and the Russian Empire. In part as an effect of chain ganging, the UK decided due to geopolitical power issues to declare war on the Central Powers, consisting of the German Empire, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.
Occurring during Ireland's revolutionary period, the Irish people's experience of the war was complex and its memory of it divisive. At the outbreak of the war, most Irish people, regardless of political affiliation, supported the war in much the same way as their British counterparts, and both nationalist and unionist leaders initially backed the British war effort. Irishmen, both Catholic and Protestant, served extensively in the British forces, many in three specially raised divisions, while others served in the armies of the British dominions and the United States, John T. Prout being an example of an Irishman serving in the latter. Over 200,000 men from Ireland fought in the war, in several theatres. About 30,000 died serving in Irish regiments of the British forces, and about 49,400 died altogether.
In 1916, Irish republicans took the opportunity of the ongoing war to proclaim an independent Irish Republic and launch an armed rebellion against British rule in Dublin, which Germany attempted to help. In addition, Britain's intention to impose conscription in Ireland in 1918 provoked widespread resistance and as a result remained unimplemented.
After the end of the war, Irish republicans won the Irish general election of 1918 and declared Irish independence. This led to the Irish War of Independence (1919–1922), fought between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and British forces. Ex-servicemen fought for both the British forces and the IRA, an example of the latter being Tom Barry. This war ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which led to the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) between pro-treaty and anti-treaty forces. The pro-treaty forces were victorious and Ireland was partitioned, with most of the island becoming the Irish Free State.
The remarks attributed to National Volunteer and poet, Francis Ledwidge, who was to die in preparation of the Third battle of Ypres in 1917, perhaps best exemplifies the changing Irish nationalist sentiment towards enlisting, the War, and t ...