Passage: On 25 November 1913, the Irish Volunteers were formed by Eoin MacNeill in response to the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force that had been founded earlier in the year to fight against Home Rule. Also in 1913, the Irish Citizen Army was founded by the trade unionists and socialists James Larkin and James Connolly following a series of violent incidents between trade unionists and the Dublin police in the Dublin lock-out. In June 1914, Nationalist leader John Redmond forced the Volunteers to give his nominees a majority on the ruling committee. When, in September 1914, Redmond encouraged the Volunteers to enlist in the British Army, a faction led by Eoin MacNeill broke with the Redmondites, who became known as the National Volunteers, rather than fight for Britain in the war. Many of the National Volunteers did enlist, and the majority of the men in the 16th  Division of the British Army had formerly served in the National Volunteers. The Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army launched the Easter Rising against British rule in 1916, when an Irish Republic was proclaimed. Thereafter they became known as the Irish Republican Army . Between 1919-21 the IRA claimed to have a total strength of 70,000, but only about 3,000 were actively engaged in fighting against the Crown. The IRA distrusted those Irishmen who had fought in the British Army during the First World War, but there were a number of exceptions such as Emmet Dalton, Tom Barry and Martin Doyle. The basic structure of the IRA was the "flying column" which could number between 20 and 100 men. Finally, Michael Collins created the "Squad"—gunmen responsible to himself who were assigned special duties such as the assassination of policemen and suspected informers within the IRA.
By how many men did the IRA in 1919-21 overstate their active engagement against the Crown? How many Irish military groups were created in 1913? How many months after Redmond got the majority on the ruling committee did a faction split off from the Irish Volunteers? How many months passed between the forming of the Irish Volunteers and John Redmond's forcing the Volunteers to give his nominees a majority on the ruling committee? How many more troops did the IRA claim to have a total strength of then the number of troops that were actively engaged in fighting against the Crown? How many of the IRA's claimed 70,000 were not actively engaged in fighting? How many of the IRA's claimed members from 1919-21 were not actively engaged in fighting? How many years after the formation of the Irish Volunteers did a faction split off from it? How many years did it take for the Irish Volunteers to become the Irish Republican Army? How many years did the IRA claim to have 70,000 members? How many years did the IRA claim to have a total strength of 70,000? How many years passed between the founding of the Irish Volunteers and the Easter Rising? In what year were the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army formed? The IRA claimed to have the strength of how many during what years? What happened in 1913? Which happened first, the Dublin lock-out or the Irish Citizen Army was founded? Who created the Squad and what were they responsible for?