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1. Today, Derry City compete in the League of Ireland, the competition for teams based in the Irish Republic.
2. On the 21st of January 1919, it met at the Mansion House in Dublin and declared an Irish Republic, while also ratifying the proclamation Pearse had read out outside the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916, although a two-year long War of Independence would be needed to make this declaration a reality, followed by a bitter civil war over the nature of the independence Ireland would enjoy from Britain.
3. The very same day, members of the party favouring Irish independence, Sinn Fein, formed a revolutionary Parliament and declared an Irish Republic.
4. With thousands of these Volunteers in arms, along with Connolly’s Irish Citizen Army, and several smaller rebel groups, they would stage a rising in Dublin and elsewhere on Easter Week of 1916, an Irish republic would then be declared, which would receive aid from Germany in the shape of arms and ammunition which would be delivered to Ireland on board German ships.
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