Special Tours | A Terrible Beauty
The birth of the Irish State 1916-1923
Although the 1916 Rising itself was doomed to failure, it paved the way for the sweeping success of Sinn Féin (Ourselves) in the 1918 General Election and the establishment of the first (underground) Dáil Éireann (Irish Parliament). There followed the War of Independence against British forces (including the notorious "Black and Tans"), led by Michael Collins and the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.).
The Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 which recognised partition ended one conflict and started another. Sinn Féin and the I.R.A. split into pro- and anti-Treaty factions and civil war raged until May 1923. Civil War divisions still dominate Irish politics today.
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