Abstract
AbstractWhile there were many earlier nationalist groups in Ireland's history, the most direct predecessor of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was the Irish Volunteers. The Irish Volunteer Force was founded in November 1913 in Dublin in reaction to theformation of the militant Unionist Ulster Volunteer Force in Belfast in 1912. The Irish Volunteer Force split in September 1914 over the issue of supporting the war effort against the Germans in World War I. Separating from the larger Home Rule group, which renamed itself the National Volunteers, the smaller, more militant and republican faction called themselves simply the Irish Volunteers.
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