anti-Treaty IRA

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The anti-Treaty IRA was the faction of the Irish Republican Army that rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty and continued armed resistance in pursuit of a fully independent Irish republic.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Irish Republican Army faction
paramilitary organization
activeDuring Irish Civil War
alsoKnownAs Irregulars
Republican forces (Irish Civil War)
conflict Irish Civil War
country Ireland
endTime 1923
event ceasefire April 1923
order to dump arms May 1923
goal establishment of a fully independent Irish republic
hasPart Irregulars
headquartersLocation Munster
ideology Irish republicanism
leader Frank Aiken
Liam Lynch
Éamon de Valera
notableMember Austin Stack
Constance Markievicz
Ernie O'Malley
Mary MacSwiney
Seán Moylan
Tom Barry
opponent UK government
surface form: British government

National Army of the Irish Free State
surface form: National Army (Irish Free State)

Royal Irish Constabulary
Ulster Special Constabulary
opposedTo Anglo-Irish Treaty
Irish Free State
partOf Irish republican movement
surface form: Irish Republican movement
positionOnTreaty rejected Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921
precededBy Irish Republican Army
reasonForOpposition oath of allegiance to the British monarch
partition of Ireland
status of Irish Free State as dominion within British Empire
separatedFrom National Army of the Irish Free State
surface form: National Army (Irish Free State)

pro-Treaty IRA
signedDocument Dump Arms order
startTime 1922
stronghold County Cork
County Kerry
County Limerick
County Tipperary
succeededBy Irish Republican Army
surface form: Irish Republican Army (post-1923)
usedTactic ambushes
destruction of infrastructure
guerrilla warfare
sabotage

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Irish Civil War belligerent anti-Treaty IRA
Anglo-Irish Treaty opposedBy anti-Treaty IRA
Michael Collins opposedBy anti-Treaty IRA
this entity surface form: Irish Republican Army (anti-Treaty)
Irish Civil War relatedTo anti-Treaty IRA
this entity surface form: Irish Republican Army
Liam Lynch sideInConflict anti-Treaty IRA