The basis for the violence in Ireland in the 1900s is when Ireland and Northern Ireland disagreed about staying in the union.
In the 1900s Ireland moved towards civil war. The Ulster Volunteer Force was formed in 1913. In the South, nationalists formed the Irish Volunteers. Both sides obtained arms.
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