19 19 1 In June, Sinn Fein, who was elected as a member of the British Parliament, refused to go to London, but gathered in Dublin to announce the convening of Ireland's first national assembly, declare Ireland's independence, form an interim government, and elected Sinn Fein leader Emmon Day valera as president.
Parliament began to establish administrative organs, courts and local administrative organs. The Irish Peace Corps was established. This army was established according to the principle of region, and its number soon increased to about 23,000.
The British government tried to destroy the Republic of Ireland by force, increased the number of military and police stationed in Ireland to 60 thousand, declared martial law and engaged in terrorist activities. With the support of local residents, the Irish Peace Corps launched an armed struggle against the colonists in the southwest of China. They took guerrilla warfare and divided into a large number of "flying teams", each consisting of 20-50 soldiers, constantly attacking British patrols and barracks and seizing arsenals.
/kloc-in the middle of 0/920, the British government transferred a special force consisting of 7000 or 8000 mercenaries to Ireland. However, this measure has not achieved remarkable results. Lenin pointed out: "The' victors' of the first imperialist massacre can't even defeat poor Ireland now ...". The wave of protests against the government's imperialist policies in Britain is on the rise. The workers demanded that the war be stopped and the British troops were withdrawn from Ireland. The British government was forced to hold talks with Edmund Day valera in the summer of 192 1 due to the resolute counterattack of the Irish people, the victory of the Irish Peace Corps and the unanimous support of the world democratic public opinion for Irish patriots.
As a result, Britain and Ireland signed a compromise treaty on February 6 of the same year. The treaty agreed that Ireland became a dominion of the British Empire, and 26 counties formed a "free state" of Ireland. The six northeastern counties with the most developed industries in Ireland are classified as Britain. The British government kept all the military bases in the new dominion. Irish farmers still have to pay land redemption money to the British Treasury.
To sum up, although the Irish people's national liberation war forced Britain to agree to establish a "free state" in Ireland, it did not achieve its original purpose. Ireland was dismembered. The British bourgeoisie still maintains its economic position in Ireland. The result of the Anglo-Irish War was mainly because the right wing of Sinn Fein Party was afraid of the scale and revolutionary nature of the national liberation movement and compromised with British imperialism. But the Irish people have not stopped fighting for national independence.