Irish Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-26

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00:01:13 1 Background
00:01:22 1.1 The treaty and its consequences
00:03:48 1.2 Split in the Nationalist movement
00:08:48 1.3 Delay until the June election
00:11:29 2 Course of the war
00:11:38 2.1 Dublin fighting
00:12:45 3 Assassination of Field Marshal Wilson
00:13:56 4 Collins orders the assault on the Four Courts
00:16:32 4.1 The opposing forces
00:21:38 4.2 The Free State takes major towns
00:23:14 4.3 Guerrilla war
00:26:10 4.4 Atrocities and executions
00:29:43 4.5 End of the war
00:32:00 5 Aftermath of the ceasefire
00:34:21 6 Attacks on former Loyalists
00:37:50 7 Foreign support
00:39:07 8 Consequences
00:39:16 8.1 Casualties
00:40:55 8.2 Economic costs
00:42:33 8.3 Political results
00:46:18 8.4 Legacy
00:48:05 9 See also
00:48:18 10 Notes
00:48:26 10.1 Footnotes
00:48:34 11 Bibliography
00:50:39 12 External links



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The Irish Civil War (Irish: Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire.
The civil war was waged between two opposing groups, the pro-treaty Provisional Government and the anti-treaty IRA, over the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The forces of the Provisional Government (which became the Free State in December 1922) supported the Treaty, while the Republican opposition saw it as a betrayal of the Irish Republic (which had been proclaimed during the Easter Rising). Many of those who fought on both sides in the conflict had been members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the War of Independence.
The Civil War was won by the Free State forces, who benefitted from substantial quantities of weapons provided by the British Government. The conflict may have claimed more lives than the War of Independence that preceded it, and left Irish society divided and embittered for generations. Today, two of the main political parties in the Republic of Ireland, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, are direct descendants of the opposing sides of the war.