Script: First Draft.

Here is the first draft of the script for our animation.

PART I

The Acts of Union in 1800 united Great Britain and Ireland. This removed the Irish Parliament.

The third home rule act was accepted, however it was postponed due to the outbreak of ww1

November 25 1913: The Irish Republican Brotherhood formed the Irish Volunteers, with Eoin MacNeill as leader.

5 September 1914: The Supreme Council of the IRB met. They decided to stage a rising before the war ended.

April 1915: Joseph Plunkett travelled to Germany to try and recruit an "Irish Brigade" from among Irish prisoners of war.

James Connolly threatened to start a rebellion on his own if other parties failed to act.

January 1916: Connolly is made Connolly the sixth member of the Military Committee. Thomas MacDonagh later becomes the seventh.

PART II

The first shot of the rebellion was actually fired in Laois during an act of sabotage.

24th April 11.30 - 12.30: Rebels occupy buildings around the city, including Jacob’s factory, the Four Courts, and the GPO. The Proclamation is read.

The rebels were responsible for the world’s first ever radio broadcast.

A Swede and a Finn fought with the Irish in the GPO. They were crewmen on a foreign ship and felt solidarity with the Irish.

25th April 05.30: British troops enter the Shelbourne Hotel and machine-gun nearby rebels at Stephen’s Green, who fall back to the Royal College of Surgeons.

20.00: A British gunboat sails into Grand Canal Dock and fires at Boland’s Mills and Bakery.

PART III

26th April 06.20: British reinforcements arrive at Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire)

A ceasefire was called between the two sides in St. Stephan’s Green in order to feed the ducks.

09.00: A British gunboat, the Helga, shells rebels at Liberty Hall. It is later captured by the British.

28th April 18.15: Part of the GPO roof collapses. Rebels later evacuate and set up headquarters on Moore Street.

29th April 12.00: Rebel HQ in Moore Street sends out a white flag to the British barricade.

14.30: Padraig Pearse signs unconditional surrender to British Brigadier General Lowe.

May 3rd-12th, 1916 

Fifteen of the Rising’s leaders are executed at Kilmainham Gaol. Public opinion begins to soften towards the rebels.

PART IV

21st January 1919

War of independence begins

Irish Volunteers ambush two RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, initiating the War of Independence.

9th July 1921

TRUCE CALLED BETWEEN IRA AND CROWN FORCES.

A Truce ends the conflict, after 2 long years of fighting. The casualties are great in number.

6th December 1921

ANGLO-IRISH TREATY SIGNED

After two months of negotiations, the Anglo-Irish treaty is signed, making Ireland a free state.

14th April 1922

THE FOUR COURTS SEIZED BY REPUBLICANS

200 anti-Treaty republicans take the Four Courts and a small number of other buildings. The occupation lasts two months.

28th June 1922

FREE STATE ARMY ATTACKS THE FOUR COURTS

The Free State Army bombards the Four Courts, marking the beginning of the Irish Civil War.

24th May 1923

REPUBLICAN MILITARY CAMPAIGN ENDS

Frank Aiken orders to cease-fire and dump-arms, ending the Civil War. An estimated 1,000-4,000 lives were lost in the conflict.