HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Cumann, Execution By Firing Squad, Irish Citizen Army
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James stephen (1824-1901: founder of irb, dublin, 1858 government or state. September of that year over john redmond"s commitment to the. British war effort, with the smaller group retaining the name of. Irish volunteers. : politically after a long struggle, a militia (volunteer army) was formed of 100,000 men. The outbreak of wwi prevented a civil war in ireland: once guns are brought in, armies are formed, its hard not to see where this militarism will not lead except for a confrontation. It hardly occurs when armies back off: the wwi was celebrated by both the irish revolutionaries and modern irish nationalists. For the revolutionaries, it was england"s difficulty, england at war would be the perfect time to stage a rising and insurrection. Their mindset was constantly looking at the past for examples. 1915 was a scandal, shame, disgrace it was a period when the major powers were at piece with each other.
