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What were the Irish Volunters up between 1916-19

  • 20-10-2014 6:06pm
    #1
    DarkyHughes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭


    May 1916 - up to January 1919 when the Tan war officially began.

    I know they were busy reorganizing around this time period but were they engaged in any military action of any kind like raids or burning RIC stations?

    I read somewhere there were several political type killings in 1918 but it didn't specify who was killed. Were there any RIC officers or British soldiers killed in 1918?


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  • #2
    jonniebgood1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,577 ✭✭✭jonniebgood1


    Several leaders were executed after the Rising.
    With much of the other leaders in prison the volunteers were most likely unable to get back to the type of action that might have been expected to follow on from the Rising. Most of the facts of the era point towards this being a period of re-organisation for Irish Nationalism.


  • #3
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,056 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Many of them spent much of 1916 and 1917 in internment. When they were released the main focus was on joining/supporting Sinn Fein, being active in the anti-conscription campaign and working towards a victory in the 1918 General Election, which was in December. Dail Eireann assembled on 25 January 1919, which was also the day of the Soloheadbeg ambush, generally regarded as the first engagement of the War of Independence.

    I won't say there were no incidents of violence between 1916 and 1919. There may have been a few, but if so they were minor and nothing that anybody at the time regarded as part of an organised campaign.


  • #4
    DarkyHughes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    Was the uprising at all yet as popular as it came to be when Sir Roger Casment was hanged?


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