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What do you consider to be the long and short term causes of the Easter rising
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What do you consider to be the long and short term causes of the Easter rising? Long term causes:- * The act of union 1800 * The famine 1845-1849 * Irish nationalism 1798-1916 Short term causes:- * The start of the first world war 1914 * The postponement of home rule 1914 * The arming of the Irish volunteers and UVF 1912-1913 "I cannot allow it to be said that a protestant minority in Ulster or else here is to rule the question at large for Ireland. I am aware of no constitutional doctrine toreble on which such a conclusion could be adopted or justified. But I think the protestant minority should have its wishes considered to the utmost extent... (Mr Gladstone...1886) To explain the reasons of conflict of 1916 we must go back to the very first time that England came to Ireland with a view of controlling it. This can be traced as far back as...
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