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Irish revolutionary period
The
revolutionary period
in
Irish history
was the period in the 1910s and early 1920s when
Irish nationalist
opinion shifted from the
Home Rule movement
-supporting
Irish Parliamentary Party
to the
republican
Sinn Féin
movement. There were several waves of
civil unrest
linked to
Ulster loyalism
,
trade unionism
, and
physical force republicanism
, leading to the
War of Independence
, the creation of the independent
Irish Free State
, the
Partition of Ireland
and the
Civil War
.
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