The Irish War of Independence: Rise of the IRA (TRIH eps 576-579)
1919 · Resource
What was Sinn Féin’s totemic first move after winning a majority seat in 1917? Were the IRA’s methods during this early stages of the war as violent as they are commonly believed to have been? How sectarian was the IRA? What crucial strategy did the Irish adopt in order to overwhelm English efforts to re-establish control in Ireland? As a victor of the First World War, was Ireland’s struggle for independence unique amongst the revolutions and changing fortunes of other nations during the post...
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Around 1919
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- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)