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The Irish Volunteers, also known as the Irish Volunteer Force or the Irish Volunteer Army, was a paramilitary organisation established in 1913 by nationalists and republicans in Ireland. It was ostens
An Irish Volunteer atop a memorial to the Irish War of Independence in Dublin by Leo Broe
Éamon de Valera.
The Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation who waged a guerrilla campaign against the British occupation of Ireland in the 1919–1921 Irish War of Indepen
Irish Volunteers
…the members of an invading army". In the statement the new relationship between the Aireacht and the Volunteers – who increasingly became known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) – was defined clearly. The Government was defined as possessing the same power and authority as a normal government…
Cathal Brugha, titular commander of the IRA
Michael Collins, de facto leader