Northern Ireland Research Paper

War brings sorrow and pain, but after the fight comes victory and independence. Ireland is an island on the Atlantic Ocean and is to the west of England. For years dating back all of Ireland was led by its neighboring country, England and her leaders. During the 1900’s the Irish decided to take action and fight back for their freedom. Independence itself is a noun in the dictionary and means the state or quality of being independent, which is what Ireland wanted and most likely dreamed of. The Irish War of Independence was also known as the Anglo-Irish war or Tan War and in Irish is Cogadh na Saoirse. In 1919 they began a military force trying to gain complete independence and renamed the Irish Republic Army or the IRA. Irish independence started with the Easter

Northern Ireland, whom were mostly Protestant, remained part of the UK after controversially being partitioned from the largely Catholic Irish Free State. (Julian) Violence did not end for the south of Ireland. British troops stayed in garrisons until spring of 1922 and the final 6,000 soldiers did not leave until December of that year. There were numbers of killings of serving and former RIC personal, some killing civilians, by the IRA- 13 Protestant civilians around Dunmanway in Cork. The last bit of violence was in Northern Ireland. The IRA fought against Northern Ireland and British forces and most were imprisoned. (John) The Easter Rising happened in the South of Ireland and was looked upon as the start of the war. There is no exact place to show where the war came to an end or a complete one in the least. It is just said to be in Ireland. These are the days and places that the Irish look back upon as their freedom. The places of battle were in the Southern half as stated before and the Northern half didn’t have much to do with the war. These historic places describe the events and much more that happened in Ireland during these happenings. This leads to some leaders who led these