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Originally Posted by Shasown
It was the Irish Volunteers that formed in 1913. They has the little row in the town in 1916. During that period the term Irish Republican Army was used by the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood to loosely describe themselves. The IRB co-opted James Connelly's Irish Citizens Army.
There were splits within organisations after the suspension of the Home Rule Act in 1914 after the declaration of war. But at that time the IRA wasnt a term used to describe any or all of the nationalists movements.
If you read the text of the Easter Proclamation you will see this backs up the above
The remaining forces left of those organisations were formally called the IRA in 1919 upon the formation of the Dáil Éireann in Dublin on 21 January 1919.(First sitting and inaugaration of the Aireacht.)
The term had been used before however IN America in the 1860's The acronym IRA was first used by the IRB organization in America (also known as the Fenian Brotherhood).
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Yes we learned all about it in school
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