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 | | He joined the nationalist Irish Volunteers on its creation in 1913, and commanded a Volunteer unit in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. |
 | | Relations with the new Irish government, which was backed by most of the Dáil and the electorate, and the Anti-treatyites under the nominal leadership of deV, now descended into the Irish Civil War (June 1922), in which the pro-treaty Free State forces defeated de Valera's Republicans. |
 | | Whereas the neutrality of the USA was terminated with the attack on Pearl Harbour, Irish neutrality was maintained right through to the end of the war. |
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