Ireland: Changes and Challenges

Approaching Ireland

• Discover Ireland (Tourist Information)
• Ireland Travel Information (Lonely Planet)
• Landscapes Unlocked: Northern Ireland (BBC NI)
• RTÉ Radio (Ireland’s National Television and Radio Broadcaster)
• RTÉ Television (Ireland’s National Television and Radio Broadcaster)
• Irish Independent (Newspaper)
• The Irish Times (Newspaper)
• Belfast Telegraph (Newspaper)
• Ireland (Britannica Online)
• Ireland (Wikipedia)
• Republic of Ireland (Wikipedia)
• Northern Ireland (Wikipedia)
• National Library of Ireland

Gaining a historical overview

Web resources recommended by my students:

All-in-one resources

• Ireland. A brief history to partition (recommended!)
• A (Very) Brief Histroy of Ireland (BBC h2g2)
• A Brief History of Ireland by Tim Lambert
• “Ireland a History” and “The Ulster Troubles” (YouTube Channel)
• Timeline Northern Ireland (History on the Net, do the Quickquiz)
• Geschichte Irlands bis 1921 (German)
• History of Ireland (Wikipedia)

Anglo-Norman Invasion

• nothing in here yet :-(

Penal Laws

• Plantation and Settlement of English and Scottish
• Plantation of Ulster (Wikipedia)
• Penal Laws (Free Online Encyclopedia)
• Penal Laws (Wikipedia)
• Protestant Ascendancy – leading to the Act of Union (Wikipedia)

Battle of the Boyne

• Williamite Ascendancy
• Educational Handbook for Secondary Schools (Oldbridge Visitor Centre)
• William III (recommended, much fun!)

Act of Union

• nothing in here yet … :-(

Potato Famine

• Irish Potato Famine (The History Place)
• “The Ejectment”, Illustrated London News, 16 Dec. 1848 (Ireland in Schools)
• Fields of Athenry (YouTube)
• The Famine Years

Irish emigration

• Irische Emigration (German, including some links to more resources)

Easter Rising

• Easter1916: From Home Rule to Independence (BBC History)

Anglo-Irish War

• Irish War of Independance (Wikipedia)
• 1916 Easter Rising – Aftermath (BBC History)

Irish Civil War

• Wikipedia article
• Timeline of the war (Wikipedia)
• Irischer Bürgerkrieg (MSN Encarta)

Republic

• History of the Republic of Ireland (Wikipedia)
• Kevin Myers: Irish sovereignty? A jolly little pretence and a sham (independent.ie, 18 November 2010)

The Troubles

• Northern Ireland: The Troubles (BBC History)
• In Pictures: The Troubles (Belfast Telegraph)
• Shooting of Northern Irish police officer Stephen Carroll opens old wounds (Irish Times, 11 March 2009)
• What they seek to destroy (Irish Times, 11 March 2009)
• The Troubles – Geschichte des Nordirland-Konflikts (German)
• Brown hails ‘new chapter’ in Northern Ireland as end to years of violence (guardian.co.uk, 6 February 2010)
• Belfast rioters ‘will not plunge Northern Ireland back into conflict’ (guardian.co.uk, 14 July 2010)
• Bloody Sunday (the Guardian’s collection of articles)
• Blood and guns as famous ambush relived (independent.ie, 24 January 2011)
• Kevin Myers: Re-enactment of RIC ambush is repulsive (independent.ie, 28 January 2011)
• Why celebrate awful ambush? (letter to the editor of the Irish Indepentent, 13 February 2011)
• Horror in Omagh as bomb kills Northern Ireland policeman (guardian.co.uk, 3 April 2011)
• Omagh murder of officer stirs memories of 1998 atrocity (guardian.co.uk, 3 April 2011)

Ireland’s way into Europe

• How Ireland Became the Celtic Tiger (overview)
• Europeans admire ‘Celtic Tiger’ (BBC News, May 2007)
• Between The Lines: Celtic Tiger set to roar again as gloom subsides (The Scotsman, September 2009)

Please add more interesting websites.