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The revolutionary period in Irish history was the period in the 1910s and early 1920s when Irish nationalist opinion shifted from the Home Rule-supporting Irish Parliamentary Party to the republican Sinn Féin movement.
The Irish War of Independence (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse) [4] or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the ...
Irish War of Independence, (1919–21), conflict that pitted Irish nationalists (republicans), who were pursuing independence from the United Kingdom for Ireland, against British security forces and Irish loyalists (unionists), who sought to preserve Ireland’s union with Great Britain.
30 Jun 2014 · A comprehensive overview of the Irish revolution, which consisted of three conflicts spanning from 1911 to 1923: the Easter Rising, the War of Independence, and the Civil War. Find general overviews, essays, and primary documents on the political, military, and social aspects of the revolution.
9 Mei 2019 · Learn about the key events and conflicts that shaped Ireland's independence from Britain, from the Gaelic Revival to the Civil War. Explore how Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy depicts the Easter Rising, the War of Independence, and the Civil War in his plays.
11 Ogo 2020 · A recent Irish Times supplement (‘Century 1919: war and peace’, Irish Times, 21 Jan. 2019) featured articles on the global ambitions of the Dáil, the global context of the revolution, the Amritsar Massacre, the Paris peace conference and Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy.
I. The dramatic events that took place in Ireland during the years 1912–1923 were part of the cycle of European and global violence characterized by war, labour militancy, and revolution.