Irish Volunteers

From Conservapedia

The Irish Volunteers was a paramilitary organisation founded in Ireland in 1913 in reponse to the establishment in 1912 of the Ulster Volunteers, a paramilitary body pledged to fight any attempt to force Ulster to submit to a proposed Home Rule government in Dublin (the 'Home Rule' policy being proposed by the British Government sought to give certain powers of internal self-government to Ireland, which would still remain within the United Kingdom). It was dominated by members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a republican secret society, and fought alongside the Irish Citizen Army in the failed Easter Rising of 1916. In 1919 the Irish Volunteers were reconstituted as the Irish Republican Army.