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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn what the process of decolonisation is. We will explore it in more detail by using the case study of Ireland in the twentieth-century.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What was 'Home Rule'?
Providing a leader in London for Ireland.
Correct answer: Providing a parliament in Dublin for Ireland.
Providing an MP in parliament for Ireland.
Providing laws for orderly homes.
Q2.
What was it the the Ulster Volunteers wanted to protect?
Their connection to Britain and the acceptance of Home Rule.
Correct answer: Their connection to Britain and to avoid being made to go along with Home Rule.
Their connection to the south of Ireland and to be part of Home Rule.
Q3.
What was the Easter Rising?
Correct answer: An armed rebellion by Irish nationalists against British rule in Ireland.
An armed rebellion by Irish unionists for British rule in Ireland.
Q4.
What war occured after the Easter Rising?
The Great War, 1914 - 1918
The Irish Civil War, 1922 - 1923
Correct answer: The Irish War of Independence, 1919 - 1921
Q5.
What was the name given to the process of creating Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State?
Division of Ireland
Correct answer: Partition of Ireland