ABSTRACT
The Irish Republican movement that arose at the end of the eighteenth century from a confluence of the ideals of the French Revolution and the native desire for liberation from alien rule and imposed injustices. The founding father of Irish Republicanism, Wolfe Tone, offered the still basic credo of Irish rebels is to subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of country, these were the objects. The Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Fenians, the Invincibles and the Irish Volunteers, father of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), were convinced men of physical force. They accepted at times the virtues of agitation, the attractions of socialism, and the impact of disobedience. The Army Council represents a northern constituency where few Nationalists are upper middle-class or professional.
