The Irish were being treated brutally. They were they're own culture and they had a better idea how to govern themselves. Innocent Catholics were being killed. And they decided enough is enough and we all know England and their history of rebellions to put down.
-An Irish American looking for those extra counties
Historians
1919-1921
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There have been wars in Ireland, most notably the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, both of which happened in the 1920s.
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Historians
1919-1921
1920 marked the midpoint of the War of Independence, which was a guerilla-based conflict between the government of the United Kingdom and the Irish Republican Army, which was the armed wing of the broader political movement seeking Irish independence from the UK. The key military leaders were Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, and Richard Mulcahy. Other important leaders with a more political focus were Arthur Griffith and Eamon De Valera. See the wikipedia entries on "The First Dail" and the "Irish War of Independence for further information.
Irish independence.
Easter Rising - 1916 War of Independence - 1919-1921 - sometimes referred to as the Anglo Irish War Anglo-Irish Treaty of Independence 1921 Independence and partition in 1922
Over the past 840 years many people have fought for Irish independence. Some of the well known ones would be: Padraig Pearse, James Connolly, Michael Collins, Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet and Eamon DeValera.
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There have been wars in Ireland, most notably the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, both of which happened in the 1920s.
economic - google refused to tell me social - no more slaves political- get independence , start revolutionary war
Gain independence from England
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