User:Brodir

leave the page on IRA as it is. The story is complex,One contributor says the IRA ceases to exist when the Dail voted to endorse the Articles of a Agreement (or "treaty") in january 1922. THe description of that Agreement is moot. The Chief o Staff of the IRA 1919-21 who became Minister for Defence following the Dail ratification of the Agreement (General Richard Mulcahy)and led the Free State Forces in the Civil War declared that the Army would remain the Irish Republican Army. The Irish Republican Army split in 1922 over the "treaty" and fought a civil war. Those who opposed the "Treaty" and various other compromises with British rule in Ireland split as these compromises came about. Conscientious patriotic Irishmen serve in various forces styled Oglaigh na hEireann and consdider themselves the Irish Republican Army. All believe that Britain has no right in Ireland, and that Ireland should be ruled by Ireland's inhabitants. In that they all subscribe to democracy.