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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Anglo-Irish War
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(1919–21, known in Ireland as the War of Independence) The formal name for the armed disturbances in Ireland popularly known as the *Troubles, which consisted of guerrilla and terrorist raids by the *IRA and often brutal reprisals by the British army and police, in particular the *Black and Tans. The unrest was the final violent stage of the long campaign for *Home Rule. The war ended when the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 recognized the independence of the Irish Free State (later the republic of *Ireland), with the six counties of Ulster remaining as *Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom – an uneasy compromise which 70 years later is no easier.
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