Treaty to Civil war

• Micheal Collins re-organizes the Irish Volunteers - He among others think it will be a different war against the British.

• The first meeting of the First Dáil was held on the 21st of January 1919 in the round room in Mansion House in Dublin where the Declaration of Independence (1919) was made.

• January 1919 'The Troubles' began - The IRA kills two RIC in Tipperary.

• Troubles last until truce is called between the IRA and David Lloyd George's government in July 1921

• Over 1,500 people killed

• Collins and Griffith sent by the IRA and Sinn Féin