Everything about The Munster Republic totally explained
The
Munster Republic was a term used by
Irish republicans to refer to the territory they held in the province of
Munster at the start of the
Irish Civil War, with its capital city being
Cork.
After the
first week of fighting in the Civil War (
June 28 –
July 5 1922),
Dublin was held by those in support of the
Anglo-Irish Treaty and the
Irish Free State. The main stronghold of Anti-Treaty forces (the Irish Republicans) became the self-styled Munster Republic, consisting of the counties south of a line between
Limerick and
Waterford.
Liam Lynch, the republican commander-in-chief, hoped to use the "Republic" as a means of re-negotiating the Treaty, and ideally reconstituting the
Irish Republic of
1919–
21. For this defensive attitude, Lynch was bitterly criticised by some other republicans, who felt that he should be acting offensively to bring the war to a quick end.
However, the Anti-Treaty side (who were supported by a large group of rebels from the
Irish Republican Army), lacked artillery and armoured units, both of which the Free State obtained from the
British. The Free State launched an
offensive against the Munster Republic in July 1922. Limerick and Waterford were taken easily, and
Cork became the last county independent of the Free State.
Michael Collins sent the
Free State Army by sea to
Union Hall in Co. Cork and to
Fenit in
Co. Kerry. Cork was retaken on
August 10. The end of the Munster Republic resulted in the opposition to the Treaty being forced into the countryside and small-scale
guerrilla warfare.
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