The original Irish Republican Army was raised in 1917 from members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army. In Irish law, this IRA was the army of the revolutionary Irish Republic as declared by its parliament, Dáil Éireann, in 1919. The contemporary IRA organisations each claim the sole right to use that name, as they each insist they are the only legitimate descendants of the original.
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The original Irish Republican Army was raised in 1917 from members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army. In Irish law, this IRA was the army of the revolutionary Irish Republic as declared by its parliament, Dáil Éireann, in 1919. In the century that followed, the original IRA was reorganised, changed and split on multiple occasions, to such a degree that many subsequent paramilitary organisations have been known by that title.
The contemporary IRA organisations each claim the sole right to use that name, as they each insist they are the only legitimate descendants of the original
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