Therefore, the Great War exacerbated problems in Ireland rather than create cause for peace and a united front. Not all Irish nationalists deigned to fight with the National Volunteers for Great Britain. Those who opposed helping the British used World War One as the opportunity for distraction and the formation of the Irish Volunteers, which became the militaristic force behind the Easter Rising. The Irish Volunteers were also aided strategically by the Germans as well as Irish-Americans in support of full independence (cited in slide 24 in #3). A uniquely Irish Catholic spirit of martyrdom motivated the nationalistic fervor that gripped Ireland and prompted years of guerilla warfare with the Protestant British.
At the same time, Great Britain played its cards wrong in its relationship with Ireland. When the war ended, the Home Rule movement was not picked up where it was left before the war began. The Ireland issue was neglected, its people alienated from Great Britain at the end of World War One (Slide 8 in group 4). With Home Rule no longer an option, Sinn Fein was formed to create a counter-state to Great Britain. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) provided the military backbone for the new nationalist movement, using guerilla warfare and terrorist tactics such as threats to families, intimidation and assassination. The IRA blocked roads and destroyed bridges. Labor unions participated in the fight as dock workers refused to unload military supplies, and railway workers refuse to drive trains containing soldiers or military supplies too.
The British response to the insurgency was "ambivalent" and poorly executed (Slide 53 in group 4). On the one hand, the British attempted to treat the insurgency as a police or domestic matter. On the other hand, the IRA was clearly fighting...
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