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The '''Irish Republican Brotherhood''', also commonly known as the IRB or the Fenians, was the largest and most influential of the nineteenth-century secret oath-bound societies in Ireland that were dedicated to ending British rule over Ireland by force and creating in its place an all-Ireland republican form of government completely independent of the [[British Empire]]. Their favourite weapons were terrorism and ambushes.
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The '''Irish Republican Brotherhood''', also commonly known as the IRB or the Fenians, was the largest and most influential of the nineteenth century secret oath-bound societies in Ireland that were dedicated to ending British rule over Ireland by force and creating in its place an all-Ireland republican form of government completely independent of the [[British Empire]]. Their favourite weapons were terrorism and ambushes.