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Junior Cert History
Term | Definition |
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De Valera | Sinn Fein leader |
Michael Collins | Wanted a republic |
Republic | To not have a monarch as a leader |
Dail | Parliament |
IRA | Military wing of Sinn Fein |
RIC | Royal Irish Constabulary |
Guerilla attacks | Surprise attacks |
Minister for Finance | Michael Collins |
Squad | 12 assassins run by Collins |
Black'n'Tans | British soldiers sent to Ireland to fight the IRA |
Tomas Mac Curtain | Lord Mayor of Cork, murdered by RIC |
Bloody Sunday, 1920 | Squad killed 12 spies and Black 'n' Tans killed 14 civilians in Croke Park |
Michael Hogan | Tipperary player killed on Bloody Sunday |
Government of Ireland Act, 1920 | 6 counties formed as State of Northern Ireland |
Anglo-Irish Treaty | Signed 6th December, 1921 |
Treaty ports | Berehaven and Cobh in Cork and Lough Swilly |
Civil War | War in a country between itself |
Irregulars | Anti-Treaty |
Cumann na nGaedhael | Pro-Treaty party |