What was the Irish Republic?
Q: What was the Irish Republic?
A: The Irish Republic was a declared independent state of the United Kingdom in the Easter Rising of 1916 and established in 1919 by the First Dáil.
Q: When did the Irish Republic exist?
A: The Irish Republic only existed during the Irish War of Independence of 1919-1922.
Q: When did the Irish Republic formally cease to exist?
A: The Irish Republic formally ceased to exist in 1922 with the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty that ended the war.
Q: What was the result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty?
A: The result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty was that 26 of the country's 32 counties became the Irish Free State and the other six remained within the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland.
Q: Did Sinn Féin accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty?
A: Sinn Féin refused to accept the treaty, said that the Irish Republic existed, even if it did not control any territory.
Q: Did elected Sinn Féin TDs take their seats in the parliaments of the Irish Free State or the United Kingdom?
A: No, elected Sinn Féin TDs never took their seats in the parliaments of the Irish Free State or the United Kingdom.
Q: Why did Sinn Féin refuse to accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty?
A: Sinn Féin refused to accept the treaty because they believed that it did not fully establish Ireland's independence and that the Irish Republic already existed.
