The Irish Volunteers are founded
1913 · Event
Nationalist Ireland answers the UVF in kind: the Irish Volunteers enrol 180,000 men within a year 'to secure the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland'. When they split over the Great War, the minority who stay become the force behind the Easter Rising.
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