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The Irish Civil War took place in the Irish Free State in 1922-23 between supporters and opponents of the treaty with Great Britain that had established the Free State. The treaty gave virtual independence to 26 counties of Ireland (excluding the six counties of Northern Ireland), but maintained that the new state remained within the British Empire and that members of the Dail Eireann should make an oath of allegiance to the British monarch - at the time, George V - as head of the Empire. The question of the oath, rather than that of Partition, led to a split in the IRA and triggered the conflict that followed.
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