The Birth of the Irish Republic; painting by Walter Paget
Native name
Tréimhse Réabhlóideach in Eirinn
Date
1912 (1912) to 1923 (1923)
Location
Ireland
Outcome
Partition of Ireland; Anglo-Irish Treaty; establishment of Irish Free State and Northern Ireland
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Irish revolutionary period (1912–1923)
Events
Home Rule Crisis (1912–14)
Curragh mutiny (1914)
Howth gun-running (1914)
Larne gun-running (1914)
Easter Rising (1916)
Conscription Crisis (1918)
War of Independence (1919–22)
The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920–22)
Creation of Northern Ireland (1921)
Partition of Ireland (1920–22)
Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921)
Irish Civil War (1922–23)
1923 Irish hunger strikes
Irish Army Mutiny (1924)
Organisations
Irish Republican Brotherhood
Irish Parliamentary Party
Sinn Féin
Irish Volunteers
Irish Republican Army
Irish Citizen Army
Black and Tans
Ulster Unionist Party
Ulster Volunteer Force
Royal Irish Constabulary
Ulster Special Constabulary
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. There were several waves of civil unrest linked to Ulster loyalism, trade unionism, and physical force republicanism, leading to the Irish War of Independence, the Partition of Ireland, the creation of the Irish Free State, and the Irish Civil War.
Some modern historians define the revolutionary period as the period from the introduction of the Third Home Rule Bill to the end of the Civil War (1912/1913 to 1923),[1][2] or sometimes more narrowly as the period from the Easter Rising to the end of the War of Independence or the Civil War (1916 to 1921/1923).[3][4]
The early years of the Free State, when it was governed by the pro-Treaty party Cumann na nGaedheal, have been described by at least one historian as a counter-revolution.[5]
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^"Atlas of the Irish Revolution is mammoth and magnificent". The Irish Times. 16 September 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
^Costello, Francis J. (2011). The Irish Revolution and Its Aftermath, 1916–1923. Irish Academic Press. ISBN 9780716531371. Retrieved 7 July 2014.; Ó Broin, León (1989). W.E. Wylie and the Irish Revolution 1916-1921. Gill and Macmillan. ISBN 9780717116379. Retrieved 7 July 2014.; Coleman, Marie (2013). The Irish Revolution 1916-1923. Routledge. ISBN 9781317801474. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
^"Ireland: Revolutionary Period, 1916–1924". britishpathe.com. British Pathé. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
^Regan, John (1999). The Irish Counter-Revolution, 1921–36: Treatyite Politics and Settlement in Independent Ireland. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 0312227272.
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