
The army of the Irish Free State that established its independence from British rule in 1922 was born in chaotic circumstances: deriving from the paramilitary IRA which waged a guerilla war against the British from 1919-1921; and then from the vicious CIvil War which followed...

The army of the Irish Free State that established its independence from British rule in 1922 was born in chaotic circumstances: deriving from the paramilitary IRA which waged a guerilla war against the British from 1919-1921; and then from the vicious CIvil War which followed...