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Italy and the ‘Irish Risorgimento’: Italian Perspectives on the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921

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In the aftermath of the First World War, the Irish question became one of the ‘hot topics’ in the international press. On 21 January 1919, the Dáil Éireann, the self-proclaimed parliament of an independent Irish republic, met for the first time in the Mansion House in Dublin. The establishment of the Dáil and the murder on the same day of two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary in County Tipperary by members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) marked the beginning of the Irish War of Independence. The nationalist guerilla insurgency against British rule ended in December 1921 with the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty and the creation of a self-governing Irish Free State.

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Chini, C. (2015). Italy and the ‘Irish Risorgimento’: Italian Perspectives on the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921. In: Carter, N. (eds) Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137297723_9

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