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 ...

This essay focuses on the first phase of combat, when the anti-Treaty IRA maintained an army in the field. During the War of Independence, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was a largely ...

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More than 2,000 people were killed in the conflict between British forces and the Irish Republican Army (IRA ... we remember those who died in the War of Independence and subsequent conflict ...

On this day, Jan 2, 1920, recruitment began for the Black and Tans, Britain’s unofficial auxiliary army during the Irish War of Independence. The Black and Tans first arrived in Ireland on March ...

Meanwhile, the Irish Republican Army of 1919 was largely the Irish ... of the British military to assist the IRA. As the War of Independence developed, the value of former British servicemen ...

A truce, which came into effect in July 1921, had halted the Irish War of Independence, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty agreed between the United Kingdom and negotiators from the Irish republican ...

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 ...

Gerry Adams, president of the staunchly pro-Irish Sinn Fein party, called on the Irish Republican Army to being disarming in an effort to save the teetering Northern Ireland Assembly. The ...