The Truce that brought the War of Independence to an end in July ... Treaty Sinn Féin TDs refused to enter the Irish Free State parliament. The IRA was divided both over the merits of the Treaty ...

But his claim to fame might be that he was one of the rebels who started the War of Independence in Soloheadbeg ... Soon he was in the hands of the IRA and was smuggled into the Mater ...

Irish Republican Army This topic contains articles relating to the original IRA from the time of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). It also covers later paramilitary organisations that ...

from an accidental gun discharge during the War of Independence on New Year’s Eve 1921. Vol. McCrann, A Coy, 1st Batt., Sligo Brigade, IRA, died after being accidentally shot and killed while ...

or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...

The remarkable story of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1922) which resulted in the formation of the Irish Free State and became the model for other British colonies to gain their independence.

When the first Dáil convened on January 21, 1919, independence from Great Britain ... Second, it led to the Volunteers being called the Irish Republican Army. Third, it “pioneered” the ...

the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA).., which had become the largest political party in Ireland after the December 1918 General Election. To try to achieve independence, the new Sinn Féin ...

The Truce that brought the War of Independence to an end in July ... Treaty Sinn Féin TDs refused to enter the Irish Free State parliament. The IRA was divided both over the merits of the Treaty ...