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Define "Empire".
A large group of nations/countries ruled by one dominant nation.
Name two countries (besides UK and Ireland) which were in the British Empire.
India, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Pakistan etc
Define "partition".
Dividing something in two....eg a country.
Political Party who won the 1918 General Election in Ireland.
Sinn Fein
What would Home Rule give Ireland?
Her own parliament (but not independence)
Group of people in Ireland who supported Home Rule in the early 1900s.
Nationalists.
The group who planned the 1916 Easter Rising.
IRB Military Council
First signature on the Easter 1916 Proclamation.
Thomas Clarke
Michael Collins
IRA leader during the War of Indpendence.
Tactics used by the IRA during the War of Independence.
Guerrilla Tactics
Nickname for ex-soldiers recruited in England who were brought to Ireland in 1919 to deal with the IRA.
Black and Tans
The bloodiest day of the War of Independence (Nov 1920)
Bloody Sunday
Three countries in the Triple Alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Wooden planks which covered the sump at the bottom of a trench.
Duck Boards
The area between the German and British trenches.
No-Mans Land
One method of dealing with the rat problem in the trenches.
The soldiers kept dogs/terriers
