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Irish republicanism (Irish: poblachtánachas Éireannach) is the political movement for an Irish republic, void of any British rule. Throughout its centuries of existence, it has encompassed various tactics and identities, simultaneously elective and militant and has been both widely supported and iconoclastic.
A new source of radical Irish nationalism developed in the same period in the cities outside Ulster. In 1896, James Connolly, founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party in Dublin. Connolly's party was small and unsuccessful in elections, but his fusion of socialism and Irish republicanism was to have a sustained impact on republican thought.
Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Citizen Army, Irish Volunteers, Cumann na mBan: 1919–22 Irish Republic: War of Independence: Irish Republican Army (1917–22), Cumann na mBan: 1939–40 England Sabotage Campaign: Irish Republican Army (1922-1969) 1942–44 Republic of Ireland-United Kingdom border: Northern Campaign: Irish Republican Army ...
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 First Dáil of the Irish Republic meets and issues a Declaration of Independence from the UK. 21 January: Irish War of Independence: Volunteers of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary in what is considered to be the first act of the War of Independence. 1921: 3 May: Northern Ireland is established ...
The Irish People: Ideology: Irish republicanism Irish nationalism: National affiliation: Irish Volunteers (1913–1917) Irish Republican Army (1917–1922) Irish National Army (1922–1924) American affiliate: Fenian Brotherhood (1858–1867) Clan na Gael (1867–1924) Colours Green & Gold: Slogan: Erin go bragh
This was a tricolour he had brought back from France, its colours (green for Catholics, orange for Protestants) intended to symbolise the United Irish republican ideal. With Old Ireland and rural priesthood against them, the Confederates had no organised support in the countryside. [69] Active membership was confined to the garrisoned towns.
In 1949 the IRA Army Council issued a statement which outlined its position on the declaration of the Republic: "...the Irish Republic, proclaimed in arms Easter 1916 and ratified in 1919 by the elected representatives of the people of all Ireland was prevented from functioning, and in its stead two Partition Parliaments were set up to govern ...